Will Zeller play again this year?

[23Steps]

Lots of rumors swirling. What does everyone think?

[NotWorthy]

I went with Yes.

[214Spencer]

I think he's done. He said he was done for the season and I think it would be dumb to risk next year for a few games at the end of this one.

[Ryan Farran]

Based on what Roy's saying, I think he'll play...on one condition: his wrist is fully healed. Coach speaks about guys leaving early for the NBA these days, so I'm inferring that he thinks Zeller's good enough to go pro. If that's the case, what's more important: a potential national championship this year or Zeller sticking around for a 5th year (the 2012-2013 season)? Roy said the decision comes down to what's best for the individual rather than the team. In this case, I think the two could be one and the same.

[23Steps]

Roy's newest update on T. Zeller:

“There’s five or six games left in the regular season, and hopefully a couple more later on. Is this going to help his development next year? Is it going to help him as a player, and he is seven-feet tall, so do all seven-footers stay all four years in college all the time? Are you willing to sacrifice a whole year for five or six games? He and I are going to talk this week and a decision will be made this week. That’s the only part that I can give you. But we are going to sit down and see where he is, because one thing we had to do was bring him back and I think he’s had five or six practices – you can put a pencil to it and guess yourself – but he hasn’t played basketball in 12 weeks.

“So to get him back… And now, can he come back and be effective? Can he come back and gain something now that will help him next year? So there’s a lot of decisions in there, but the toughest thing is that I’m making him make the decision himself. He and his parents and I even had a conference call on Saturday morning and talked about some things. The decision will be made this week.”


http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/839766.html

[23Steps]

Here's another article talking about Zeller.

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/zeller-decision-due-this-week

(Doesn't the writer look like such a tool? Sorry, I don't know anything about the guy, but that picture is terrible.)

[Ryan Farran]

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/840019.html

Is there still a chance that Tyler Zeller plays on Wednesday?
“Yes, it depends on how he goes through practice today… He would really like to help this team. He would really like to play. He thinks that it would really help him in the long term, and hopefully, he would help this team this year. So he and I discussed it yesterday and I told him that was the decision we would go with, unless he went home and slept on it and came back today and said he’s changed his mind. So if he comes back today and says he changed his mind, then he won’t play. If he hasn’t changed his mind, he probably will play.”