- Sean May?s performance is the most impressive by a player who wasn?t particularly touted coming into the Tournament since John Wallace of Syracuse in 1996.

He was everything to the Tar Heels during each game of the Tournament.

In the Championship, Luther Head, Deron Williams and Dee Brown matched up well with Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Jawad Williams, but Bruce Weber had nothing to throw at May, who has a brighter future than Mike Sweetney, who the Knicks are high on.

May is very agile for a player of his width and has good hands and a soft touch.

Replace Roger Powell and James Augustine with Tim Duncan and Amare Stoudamire and the results won?t be quite the same.

- I was also in attendance for North Carolina?s first game of the season, an embarrassing loss to Santa Clara.  The difference was clearly Raymond Felton.  His 2nd half 3-pointer stopped a key Illini run.  He started everything for Carolina and gave them a swagger that became contagious to guys like May.

- Deron Williams will immediately become an effective professional player.  He has said that he patterned his game after Jason Kidd and you can see it the way he approaches the game.  Kidd has a couple inches on Williams and is a much better athlete, but Williams is already a better shooter and is a gamer in the same way the California product has been for the last 10+ years.

- Only in glimpses could you see Marvin Williams? potential against Illinois?can?t argue with that Tar Heel pedigree though.

- Rashad McCants on the other hand appears destined for the lore of great college player, NBA failure.  The 6?3 shooting guard is making a comeback with Dywane Wade and Ben Gordon, but McCants seems like just a more athletic Juan Dixon, which is to say a nice back-up guard.  He should be a late first rounder, possibly early second, depending on how the Age 20 Rule plays.