John Clay's Sidelines

Was on WLXG-1300 the other night, where Matthew Laurence said he thought North Carolina would put Marcus Ginyard on John Wall tomorrow. I agreed. I would guess that the more experienced Ginyard will get Wall, while Larry Drew guards Eric Bledsoe and Will Graves takes Darius Miller.

Mike DeCourcy of the Sporting News wonders the same thing:

With help from his teammates, Ginyard unsettled All-American candidate Evan Turner of Ohio State, who committed 10 turnovers. Against Michigan State, Ginyard took turns shutting down Durrell Summers and Kalin Lucas.

Mike also gives more of the background behind the Roy Williams-Tom Izzo tiff this week.

Links from North Carolina’s 92-89 loss to Wake Forest last night, which dropped the Heels to 0-2 in the ACC:

• Robbi Pickeral of the Charlotte Observer has the game story on the Carolina loss to Wake Forest.
• In the Winston-Salem Journal, Lenox Rawlings writes about how Jeff Teague took the Deacons on his back.
• Also in the Journal, Bill Cole writes that Heels say they need to learn from mistakes.
• Pickeral’s notes package gives an update on Marcus Ginyard.
• Caulton Tudor of the Raleigh News-Observer asks if Wake Forest is really that good.
• At espn.com, Andy Katz writes that people are starting to consider Wake a Final Four contender.
• At Fox Sports, Jeff Goodman writes that Wake is living up to the hype.
• At SI.com, Luke Winn points out the three most important things we learned from Wake’s win over Carolina.
• At CBS Sportsline, Gary Parrish writes about Wake’s star guard, Jeff Teague.
• In the Greensboro News-Record, Ed Hardin argues that Wake might be the ACC’s best team.