As the 2007-2008 college basketball season begins, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has been ranked #1 in the preseason USA Today/ESPN college basketball coaches poll. So in honor of the Tar Heels, here's a clip showing appreciation for the 2005 national champions.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

UNC Tar Heels were ranked #1 in the AP preseason poll which came out on Nov. 2, 2007.

Flashback to the 1982 National Championship:

#11 Pittsburgh - 65, #6 Duke - 64 (OT)

#1 UNC - 90, #19 Clemson - 88 (OT)

The game-winning shot by Wayne Ellington:

I thought you were a VIRGINIA Huguenot

Go Virginia! Virginai Tech! Old Dominion! Virginia Commonwealth! Richmond! George Mason! Georgetown! Maryland! (born in DC, grew up in Maryland, live in Virginia )

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Pax,
Richard Elliott
Midlothian, Virginia
Deacon, Presbyterian Church in America
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. , C. S. Lewis

What can I say, I was born in Chapel Hill, went to UNC-CH, and have Carolina blue blood flowing through my veins.

I root for UVA often ('cept against the Tar Heels), sometimes Maryland (I used to live in College Park) but rarely-to-never Georgetown (I do so enjoy watching the 1982 and 1985 national championship games).

(25) Baylor - 116, (18) Texas A&M - 110 (5OT) (January 24, 2008)

Tar Heels museum open to the public Monday - UNC showcase is nation's first basketball-only museum (January 26, 2008)

Well, we know LSU took a left turn and got off the road sometime in the preseason apparently. They are losers of 8 straight games and are 0-5 in the SEC.

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C.P. --Attending Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

"Where is the young man who fears the judgment to come? What is the breath of an enemy of God to the blast of the soul by the breath of the Almighty? If you fear the frowns of a fellow worm, how will you stand in judgment with an angry God?" --Asahel Nettleton

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My Baylor Bears are ranked and top of the Big 12 South after humiliating the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station after 5 overtimes a few nights ago.

SIC 'EM BEARS!

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Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)

Memphis Tigers 19-0, best non-conference RPI. Go Tigers!

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Sean Caouette
Independent Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Memphis, Tennessee

Tyrese Rice is killing me. 6-6 from 3-point range, 23 points, so far in the first half.

Hats off to Tyrese Rice! FG 14-25, 3 pt 8-12, FT 10-11, 46 points total

UNC 90, Boston College 80

And the ACC regular season championship goes to...

#1 UNC - 76, #5 Duke - 68

Congrats on your teams success this season, Andrew. North Carolina is definitely one of about 8-10 teams that can win it all this year.

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
"But by the grace of God I am what I am." I Corinthians 15:10

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton

Memphis 30-1, gonna be a tough team in the tourney.

March 11, 2008 -- Tyler Hansborough (North Carolina Junior) is named the Sporting News 2007-2008 National Player of the Year. Also announced today: Hansborough's UNC jersey #50 will be retired, making him the 8th Tar Heel men's basketball player to be so honored (others include: Jack Cobb (played 1924-26, did not wear a number), George Glamack (#20, 1939-41), Lennie Rosenbluth (#10, 1954-57), Phil Ford (#12, 1974-78), James Worthy (#52, 1979-82), Michael Jordan (#23, 1981-84) and Antawn Jamison (#33, 1995-98)).

*holds a B.A. from the University of Memphis and is a J.D. candidate for the class of 2010*

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing." -Titus 3:13
http://foolish-wisdom.blogspot.com/

Let the March Madness begin.

yee - haw !!

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For the sake of the Name,

John Hill
Faith Community - Woodstock, Ga
Adopted. Husband for 12 years. Father of 5 children.
http://faithcommunitychurch.org- My home church
Rocky Top, you'll always be, home sweet home to me.

Congrats to North Carolina for winning the ACC regular season championship, the ACC tournament championship and finishing #1 in the final 2007-2008 AP poll.

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Davidius
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

And though the really inspired artist may complain that, with the majority, piano-playing is mere strumming, and painting little more than daubing, yet, the exuberant feeling of having a share in the privileges of art is so overwhelming, that the scorn of the artist is preferred to the abandonment of art training in education. To have laid a production of your own, however poor, upon the altar of art becomes more and more the characteristic of an accomplished civilization. - Abraham Kuyper

Anybody watching Duke-Belmont?

Pretty good game, huh? Belmont almost pulled it out, but they just didn't quite have enough. It's amazing how the big schools like Duke and UNC perform under pressure when it matters most.

And I gotta say, Coach K is a pretty classy act. He never shows the other team up, and he seems like he really cares about the kids.