It's worth remembering in light of Wednesday's game that UNC isn't the only Triangle suffering from injuries at a key position. The Wolfpack ball-handlers aren't showing Quentin Thomas's improvement at the position, and the situation is rankling the folks at State Fans Nation:

As an aside, here's the only other mention of Chris Warren on the blog:

Jai Lucas never came up in their recruiting coverage.

I'm not dredging this up to pick on State fans, but more to make a point about fans following recruiting. Evaluating high school talent is hard. I think it's tougher than evaluating college player for the NBA, and every NBA fan has a host of horror stories about bad draft picks. All those high school player rankings, all those analysis reports you can buy on the web, and all of the creepy middle-aged me in track suits lurking around the fringes of high school gyms - it all doesn't matter. Sometimes talent pans out, sometimes it doesn't, and more than a few McDonald's All-Americans have ended up buried at the end of a bench. Look, I'm thrilled that everyone seems to like the talent Roy Williams is bringing in, but Williams and company get paid a lot of money to wade through that stuff and decide who to bring to campus. Those guys could still turn out to be busts - I'm not going to worry about until they're wearing Carolina Blue and playing on the Dean Dome floor.

Oh, and as a postscript, here's StateFas Nation proposed solution to the point guard problem:

I'm not sure what the difference between the euphemistic "restructuring" and the "rescinding of Warren's offer" rumor that had them so hot under the collar back in October of 2006, but restructuring seems like a shitty thing to do to a college kid.