Creature Vs. Creature: Boston College Looks to Take Down The Tar Heels

(Note: Nathan B wrote the other part of this Creature vs. Creature matchup; please read here  for the North Carolina point of view).

Boston College certainly didn’t like how 2008 ended as their football team saw the demise of their eight-game bowl win streak at the hands of Vanderbilt.

Well Eagles fans, 2009 isn’t about to start any better as the B.C. men’s basketball team kicks off the ACC season Sunday with a trip to play…gulp…the North Carolina Tar Heels.

In case you’ve been hibernating for the past nine months, Christmas came early for Roy Williams when Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, and Danny Green all removed their names from the NBA Draft for a chance to return to Chapel Hill for another Final Four run.

Throw in the fact that Tyler Hansbrough didn’t even enter the draft and Williams probably begins each day by pinching himself.

To put it simply, the Tar Heels are loaded at every position.

In Hansbrough and Lawson, they have arguably the best big man and point guard in the nation.

Add Ellington, Green, Deon Thompson, Bobby Frasor, and Marcus Ginyard (the latter two returning from injury) to the mix and you can see why most media outlets have crowned them as the heavy to cut down the nets in March.

As if the Heels weren’t talented enough, their crop of freshmen (Ed Davis, Larry Drew II, Tyler Zeller and Justin Watts) were ranked as one of the best recruiting classes in the nation. Zeller is out for the year with a hand injury but does that really make a difference?

And when you have five players (Hansbrough, Lawson, Thompson, Ellington, and Green) that average a total of 78 points per game, life is good.

Boston College on the other hand is almost the exact opposite of the Heels.

The Eagles were picked to finish 11th (ahead of only Virginia) in the ACC preseason media poll.

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