You just know that they will turn out to be a minor part of the actual game today. The attention Greg Monroe is getting before this game is a little outsized. Don’t get me wrong, Monroe is a great young player already and shaping up to be the best freshman in a down one-and-done year. It’s just that so rarely when you have this many pieces written before one game does the game narrative match. There’s the AP piece.

If basketball doesn’t pan out for Greg Monroe – and it seems that it most certainly will – he should consider taking his wonderfully mellow, bass voice on the road in a Four Tops revival tour.

“Once he starts talking,” teammate Jessie Sapp said, “it’s like, ‘Dag, you’re a little boy with this voice?’ ”

Monroe, however, insists the only performing he does is on the basketball court.

“I never really got into singing at all,” he said. “I don’t know how my voice got this deep.”

and then both DC papers have their Monroe stories. There is the standard stuff of Monroe being the latest in a line of great G-town big men.

Nearly three decades ago, Patrick Ewing arrived on the Hilltop with a freakish athleticism that belied his size, beginning Georgetown’s love affair with talented centers. From Ewing, Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo to Othella Harrington, Mike Sweetney and Roy Hibbert, Georgetown has enjoyed one of the nation’s most impressive parades of post players ever since.

And the whole, playing with a maturity beyond his years. Don’t get me wrong, Monroe terrifies me. He was not intimidated in the least going against Thabeet and UConn on the road. He’s an excellent talent. It’s just that the stories I’m seeing might as well be Mad Libs for pieces like this, that get written about any freshman playing real well. Last year it was Derrick Rose, O.J. Mayo, Kevin Love, etc. The numbers are smaller this year and the impact on top teams smaller so the focus will mostly be on players like Monroe, Tyreke Evans before Memphis struggled, expect the same for Demar DeRozan at USC as they start to live up to the hype.

The fun thing, though, will be seeing how DeJuan Blair handles Monroe. Sam Young isn’t worried.

But top competition always seems to bring out the best in Blair. The 6-7, 265-pounder posted double-doubles last season against some of the top inside players in the nation, including Thabeet, Hibbert, Luke Harangody, David Padgett and Kyle Singler. In his three games against Big East 7-footers Thabeet and Hibbert, the Schenley High School product averaged 12.7 points and 10.7 rebounds.

“When you put another big man in front of DeJuan and challenge him, he takes on that challenge with the best of them,” Young said. “I think he plays better when the team’s focused around the big man, and it’s his job to … go out and outplay him all-around.”

That match-up will get overhyped during the game and don’t you know, it will likely be irrelevant.