With the first official college basketball game of the season in just a couple of hours, it’s time to wrap up our preview series with our Tar Heel Blog staff predictions and preseason awards for the UNC Men’s Basketball team. We’ve got some consensus, some confusion, and a lot of excitement, so let’s get started with the awards voting and individual predictions:
Awards:
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Not much of a surprise for the big award, that is, Team MVP. The Tar Heels’ two longest-tenured players and leaders, R.J. Davis and Armando Bacot, were evenly split among 8 out of the 9 of us for who would end the season as the Heels’ best/most important player.