Through two games at home this season, Matt Doherty and his Tar Heels have yet to find the winning touch.

North Carolina needed the holiday weekend off. But they need a game like Indiana even more, especially if they can play well, and certainly if they can beat the Hoosiers in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday night in Chapel Hill.

"We needed the practice time," said North Carolina coach Matt Doherty about the stunning two homecourt losses to Hampton and Davidson to start the season. "There's no question that we want to win this game badly, but we want to play better. Of course if we beat Indiana that means we're playing better."

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Texas Tech at New Mexico State, Wednesday: Bob Knight vs. Lou Henson again? Somehow, this doesn't quite have the same impact as Indiana vs. Illinois. Charlotte at Temple, Thursday: The Owls haven't played since going 0-2 in New York. The 49ers have the shooters to beat the zone. Stanford vs. Texas/DePaul vs. Notre Dame in Chicago, Saturday: The Cardinal highlight this doubleheader with their second straight trip to the Midwest. Notre Dame is quietly cruising through its schedule. Kansas at Arizona, Saturday: The schedule doesn't get any easier for both teams and believe it or not but the Wildcats will be playing their first home game. More games to watch

Player of the Week Dwyane Wade Dwyane Wade, G, Maryquette The 6-4 sophomore is making the most of his first season of eligibility (he was academically ineligible as a freshman). He's averaging 20.8 points overall, but led Marquette with 30 points and seven assists in the win over the Volunteers in the first-round of the Great Alaska Shootout. He put up 21 on Indiana in the semifinals and then a modest, but still key 13 over Gonzaga in the championship game. He's pulling down 9.2 rebounds a game, not bad from the combo spot on the perimeter. His turnovers are still way too high (46 to 24 assists), including nine against Gonzaga. But that's to be expected after playing only five games of Division I ball. Gonzaga coach Mark Few said Marquette is playing in mid-season form, a credit to coach Tom Crean, but also to Wade, who Few said has a scorer's mentality and can put the ball in from anywhere on the floor. Past players of the week Top Five Jason Williams, Duke: He made the key steal to seal the win over Seton Hall in the first round of the Maui Invitational. And he ended up scoring 27. Williams was off against South Carolina with only six points, but still had seven assists. He shot only 6 of 22 against Ball State, but found a way to get to the free-throw line, making 9 of 12 to cover up for his 1 for 8 on 3s and finish with 22 points in the Maui Invitational title win. Jonathan Hargett, West Virginia: He put up 28 points, including seven 3s, in a win at New Mexico on Saturday. The highly-touted freshman point had eight assists, too. He's averaging 19 points and 6.3 assists in West Virginia's 3-0 start. Hargett's overshadowed New Mexico's Ruben Douglass, who scored 26 and was 10 of 10 from the line. Curtis Borchardt, Stanford: Borchardt keeps outdoing himself with 20 boards in a win over Purdue on Saturday in Indianapolis. The 7-foot junior is finally healthy and coming close to his potential with his board work (he had 11 against Southern Utah earlier in the week) and production in the post. He was 9 of 12 overall, 10 of 12 at the line for the week. Chris Kaman, Central Michigan: The Chippewas aren't just a one-man show with David Webber as long as the 7-foot Kaman is on the floor. He was suspended for the first two games and in his season debut he grabbed 17 boards, scored 19 and had two seals in Central Michigan's impressive win over Georgia State. Eric Channing, New Mexico State: He might be the best shooter you've never heard of, certainly out East. Channing scored 28 points, including five 3s, in a win over San Diego State and is averaging 17.3 for the 2-0 Aggies. He's shooting 43.6 overall, 33.3 on 3-pointers and 81.2 percent at the free-throw line. Team of the Week Missouri This might end up being the toughest choice this season. Oklahoma State (five wins in six days, including beating Providence and taking the Las Vegas Classic title); Ball State (beating Kansas and UCLA in Maui); Marquette (beating Tennessee, Indiana and Gonzaga for Great Alaska Shootout title); and Syracuse (winning Preseason NIT with wins over Michigan State and Wake Forest), were all worthy candidates. But the nod goes to Missouri (we feel that we can only pick one). The Tigers beat Alabama and Iowa in back-to-back nights in Kansas City to win the NABC Guardians Classic and then took out Xavier on Saturday in Indianapolis at the Wooden Tradition. The Alabama win was as spirited a victory as we've seen to date, especially with Kareem Rush getting knocked on the noggin twice, once resulting in a broken nose, the second creating a knot above his eye. These are the kind of games away from Columbia that Missouri didn't win last season. They looked like they had Final Four potential in practice in October and now they're going out and beating comparable teams in November. Past teams of the week

Rising	Falling
Daniel Ewing, Duke: Sure he was a McDonald's All-American, but he's logging critical minutes for Duke and is making the most of it with 19.7 minutes and 6.7 points a game.	Iowa State: A 2-2 start with losses to Southern Illinois and Penn, albeit two very, very good low-profile teams, isn't the way this season was supposed to begin. The rebuilding Cyclones don't catch a break with games against Iowa and at BC in a few weeks.
Syracuse: The Orangemen is a name that fits because these guys are men, veterans, playing with boys at times as Preston Shumpert, DeShaun Williams and Kueth Duany make the game look easy.	Utah: Utah State isn't a slouch, but a 13-point loss at home? The Utes are still trying to get used to Rick Majerus and the Utes need Britton Johnsen, Travis Spivey, Chris Burgess, Nick Jacobson, Trace Caton and Phil Cullen to all click to be good.
Gonzaga's big men: Ronny Turiaf, Zach Gourde and Cory Violette give the Bulldogs their best set of big men since Casey Calvary and Jeremy Eaton roamed the post when the Zags went to the Elite Eight. Turiaff is the surprise and is as active around the basket as any player we've seen, thus far.	Arizona State: What happened to our surprise team in the Pac-10? The Sun Devils are 0-2 with losses to Portland State and at Brigham Young. ASU's defense hasn't been as strong and the Sun Devils aren't finishing games the way they should at this point.
Penn: Beat Georgia Tech, nearly pulled an upset over Illinois and took out Iowa State -- the latter two in Las Vegas, the first in Atlanta. Illinois coach Bill Self said the Quakers might be one of the best teams they face all season, especially the one-two punch of Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong.	New Mexico: The Lobos blew two chances to pick up wins at home against Stanford and West Virginia. Stanford has top-10 potential and West Virginia top-25 status at some point, but the Lobos still aren't getting the consistent production inside they need. It doesn't help that Moustapha Diagne is barely playing because of a bad foot.
Oklahoma State: Eddie Sutton is letting it be known that this might be his best team since 1995 (see: Final Four in Seattle). Who can argue? The veteran Cowboys are steamrolling through the competition with Maurice Baker having an All-American campaign.	Wisconsin: The Badgers are off to a 1-3 start without a Division I win (the only W came over Hawaii-Hilo). Everyone knew it was going to be a rebuilding season in Madison, but without much depth and ability to score in the post, then the Badgers could struggle to get to double-figure wins.
Harvey Thomas, Georgetown: OK, so we wrote a lot about him -- but the bottom line is this guy can play, and play a lot for the Hoyas. He took 12 shots, tied for second most on the team, against Towson and scored nine points in 17 minutes, including five boards and three steals in only his second game of being eligible.	Texas: The Longhorns are still going to be good, very good, in the Big 12. But going 1-2 in Alaska and starting 1-3 overall wasn't what was expected. T.J. Ford is still going to be a sensational point guard and Chris Owens remains one of the toughest to defend in the post. Now they need a consistent wing.
Rhode Island: This was supposed to be the worst Division I team in a high-major conference (if the Atlantic 10 qualifies). But the Rams are 1-1 after dispatching Iona behind 18 points each from Brian Woodward and Lazare Adingono. Jim Baron might not have to sweat as much this season.	San Diego State: The Aztecs still don't have their complete team on the court, but losing can start to breed discontent. The losses to Texas Tech, New Mexico State, though, hurt a team that is trying to build confidence early in the season.
Colorado State: The Rams lost to Weber State in the title game of the Big Island Invitational in Hilo, but the Wildcats -- who do deserve plenty of praise -- are predicted to win the Big Sky. The Rams were an afterthought in the Mountain West, but no more, after winning at Washington State, and beating Hawaii in their 3-1 start.	Tennessee: Ron Slay played in two games in Alaska, but the Volunteers still came away with only one win -- against non-Division I host Anchorage. Tennessee has to survive road games at SMU and Memphis and not get too down before Marcus Haislip is expected to be eligible.
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons get what Skip Prosser is trying to do and were a few possessions away from winning the Preseason NIT title. They've got the veterans and the scorers to be a top four, possibly top three, ACC team throughout the season.	Marshall: Something is definitely wrong with the Herd after losing to Troy State this week and falling to 0-3. The rest of the MAC is on a tear -- even Western Michigan after beating Michigan -- and Marshall can't afford to get left behind this early in the season.
South Florida: The 4-0 Bulls are actually winning games they're supposed to after taking the University Hoops Classic title in Pittsburgh, with a win over the local Panthers behind 22 points from Altron Jackson.	Michigan State: The Spartans will be fine come February, but they've got to get through December and Kelvin Torbert has to learn how to move without the ball and be more of a factor. Moving Marcus Taylor to shooting guard might relax him after being too tentative at the point.

Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com. His Weekly Watch, a look back at the week and a preview of the week ahead, runs every Monday.