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North Carolina didn't need Tyler Hansbrough in Monday's romp over Chaminade.

Tyler Hansbrough sat out the 115-70 victory. He missed three weeks of practice and the first two games of the season with a stress reaction in his right shin, and the reigning player of the year wasn't expected to play all three games in the three-day tournament. He played 25 minutes and had 13 points Friday against UC Santa Barbara, but didn't see any time against the Division II host school.

"If this had been for the national championship, he would have played," North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. "I made my mind up before we left Santa Barbara that he wouldn't play three straight days and he tweaked his left ankle at the end of that game. If he doesn't play two games now it will be because of the other leg."

ATLANTIC 10: The conference will move its men's basketball tournament championship game to CBS in 2010.

Under a deal announced Tuesday, the 14-team league's championship game will be played on the same Sunday that the NCAA tournament field is announced. Previous championship games were played on Saturdays and broadcast on an ESPN network.

This season's tournament is being played in Atlantic City, N.J. Like previous seasons, the top 12 teams will play all the tourney games there, with the top four seeds getting an opening-round bye.

Beginning in 2010, the four opening-round games will be played at the campuses of the higher seeds. Winners of the first-round games will play in quarterfinals at the tournament site, which the league hasn't yet announced.

"Allowing four institutions to host an opening-round championship game will generate enthusiasm throughout the footprint of the Atlantic 10," A-10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade said. "This hybrid format presents the best of all worlds: allowing teams to host midweek opening-round games, which are always an attendance challenge, and subsequently advancing all to a common championship site on a traditional weekend schedule of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday."

UMASS: Guard Doug Wiggins was suspended after he an arrest for breaking and entering.

The university says Wiggins was suspended indefinitely for his involvement in the incident, which occurred off campus over the weekend.

Police confirmed Wiggins' arrest but declined to give any details. Coach Derek Kellogg said the team is waiting to get all the facts.