CHAPEL HILL
North Carolina plays its one and only public exhibition game on Friday night against Guilford. Ordinarily, such an affair wouldn't mean all that much. And it still doesn't mean all that much.
It's just an exhibition game, after all. But it means a lot more than it did, say, on Monday, before Marcus Paige, the senior guard, suffered a broken hand in practice on Tuesday.
Now all of a sudden the exhibition game has added value. It will offer Roy Williams an opportunity to experiment with his lineup and to see, with the lights on and a score being kept (albeit against a team that shouldn't pose many challenges), how the Tar Heels look without Paige.