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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Pete Nance shouldn’t be compared to Brady Manek. But after No. 1 North Carolina’s tougher-than-expected 72-66 win over Gardner-Webb, the graduate transfer from Northwestern proved, just like Manek did last season, why he was a coveted addition to the lineup.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — No. 1 North Carolina didn’t show much of the offensive explosiveness that helped it reach the national championship game last season in its opener against UNC Wilmington on Monday night.

North Carolina’s 1991 Final Four loss to Kansas antagonized Hubert Davis as a player so much that he said he repeatedly watched a replay of it annually until he, as an assistant coach under Roy Williams, was part of the Tar Heels’ 2017 national title team.

Plus, we predict the Player of the Year, mid-major to watch and overrated teams.

Phil Ford, one of the best players in UNC basketball history, is this week’s guest on “Sports Legends of the Carolinas.”

Davis is getting rewarded coming off of a trip to the national championship game.

There were times watching Caleb Love and R.J. Davis as freshmen in North Carolina’s backcourt where it was hard to envision things working out. The pair contained a similar skill set and neither was what basketball people would call a pure point guard.

Illinois is No. 23 in the preseason rankings.

UNC and Kentucky made out very well, while Michigan State did not. Who else joins them?

Nance gives the Tar Heels the potential to replace at least some of the production they lost.

Trailing by two with seconds left in the district championship game, Pete Nance dribbled up the floor, anticipated the double team coming, and whipped a pass to his Revere High School teammate for the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.