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ATHENS, Ga. -- Yante Maten scored a game-high 19 points, J.J. Frazier added 18 points and Georgia never trailed to beat UNC-Asheville 60-46 Monday night.Georgias win marked the 250th coaching victory for Mark Fox, now in his eighth season. Fox is 127-104 at Georgia.We showed more poise, I thought we competed better, but were at home, said Fox, who has won seven of eight home openers at Georgia. Weve got to be able to deal with adverse situations on the road and adverse environments. ... Tonight we played better basketball and that is progress, which is good.Frazier tallied a 3-pointer at the 17:57 mark of the first half to record his 1,000th career point for Georgia (1-1). Frazier became the 47th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark.Its another win and another basket made, Frazier said. Im grateful to be healthy enough to play this long, but Ive been here four years so it was about time I got to it.UNCA (0-2) got double-digit scoring from Ahmad Thomas, who finished with 13 points, and Macio Teague, who added 11 points.Georgia shot 40 percent from the field (22 of 55) while UNCA managed 34 percent (20 of 59). UNCA also lagged behind on the boards as Georgia held a 45-29 edge on the glass, including 34 defensive rebounds.Usually its about boxing out and going to get it, pretty much, said Maten, who led Georgia with nine rebounds.UNCA collected 17 bench points to Georgias six. The only other areas where UNCA was able to keep up with Georgia were in the lane, where it posted 22 points in the paint compared to Georgias 24, and in the turnover department, where UNCA recorded 11 to Georgias 17 and posted 13 points off its opponents miscues.I was really happy with the way we took care of the basketball, certainly when looking at the turnover margin, UNCA coach Nick McDevitt said. I was really happy with our ability to take care of the ball and how hard we were playing. We just couldnt get anything to fall. Some of them were ill-advised shots, but for the most part, I thought we were taking open looks by guys that can shoot the basketball.Georgia cleared its bench by games end, with seven of 14 players reaching the scoring column, including freshman Jordan Harris, whose first collegiate shot attempt was a 3-pointer in the second half.BIG PICTUREGeorgia: After falling in their season opener Friday night at Clemson, Georgia bounces back with a decisive victory over UNCAUNCA: The Bulldogs are still looking for their first win of the season after losing back to back games.AUGUST COMPANYFrazier is the 47th Georgia player to hit 1,000 points and is the sixth player under Mark Fox to reach the mark, joining Charles Mann (1,411 points), Trey Thompkins (1,396), Kenny Gaines (1,324), Nemi Djurisic (1,123), Travis Leslie (1,099) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (1,013).QUOTABLEWe have to see how it evolves. Some guys may be ready to take a step forward and some guys may not. 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Its extremely hard to make it to the national team.This simple recognition has led to an exodus of Chinese talent -- and to worries that it will take more than the wanderings of Chinas second-tier athletes to save a sport so thoroughly dominated by one nation.At the Rio Olympics, China will not only have the worlds best table tennis players, but also will have produced the best players on the rosters of many other national squads.Unrelenting dominance by one country of a sport isnt unusual, of course, but Chinas table tennis supremacy is on a different level. Some believe that for the sport to thrive other nations must have some hope of winning on an international stage every now and then -- and not just with outside Chinese talent.Table tennis in China, despite what some see as a dip in its popularity, remains a source of national pride. A highly developed infrastructure scouts talented young athletes, often in kindergarten, and then grooms them into world beaters.The success of this system is reflected in Olympic gold: China has won all but four gold medals since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.Before the 2012 Olympics in London, a rule change allowed each country to only put forward two players for singles. China rolled on regardless, winning all the golds and silvers for singles, and leaving bronze for the rest of the world.The exodus of Chinese players is partly explained by the intense competition to make the national team. Current world No. 1 Liu Shiwen, for instance, didnt get one of Chinas two spots for singles.With so much talent, many Chinese players must contemplate a move abroad for a shot at the Olympics.The United States has two players who started their careers in China, including Yue Jennifer Wu. Three of the players on Australias six-person team were born in China and a fourth was born in Melbourne to Chinese parents.Only three nations in the womens competition in 2012 were without a China-born player, or a player with Chinese roots -- Egypt, North Korea and Japan.A major reason for Chinas success in table tennis is an intense, some might say obsessive, dedication to training; it also partially explains why some players leave.One of the Australian team members, Jian Fang Lay, used to run away after school to avoid her coaching sessions in China, according to the Australian Olympic Committees website.Kai Zhang, a China-born player hoping to mmake the 2020 U.ddddddddddddS. Olympics team, said coaches in China required even the sick and injured to train.If you want to be a world champion, it is better to train in China, Zhang said in an interview posted on the USA Table Tennis website last year. But if you want to have a balanced life and want to be happy and free, then training in the U.S. is better.Chinas talent identification system is also more advanced than other countries.China trains a huge number of players from a young age. South Korea simply waits for a talented one to be found, said Kim Taeksoo, a South Korean former Olympic player. If there are no talented young players that are being nurtured, the chances of beating Chinese players are very low.China seems to recognize a need to help the rest of the world catch up.Officials have made efforts to try to nurture talent in other countries, allowing foreign players to attend table tennis schools in Chinese provinces, for example, and sending Chinese coaches abroad, Zhao Xia, a Chinese Table Tennis Association official said.Far from resenting the exodus of talented players, China encourages and supports them, said a national table tennis association official who would only give his surname, Wang, because he wasnt authorized to speak to the media.Its possible that those players might beat Chinese national team players, but still, it is in China that they acquired their skills and tactics, Wang said.From a purely athletic perspective, watching two world-class athletes compete in long rallies that often seem to test the laws of physics with chopping spin shots and powerful smashes can be entertainment enough, even if both players happen to be Chinese.But the Olympics are often a nationalistic affair, and many people wont tune in unless their country has a chance at winning.One country being far too good ruins the sportsmanship and the fun part of it, Kim, the South Korean Olympian, said. Most European and Asian countries are losing table tennis fans.For the players who leave China to compete for new countries, there can also be psychological strain.When you dont know the opponent, you dont feel anything emotionally, said Jeon, the China-born ace for South Korea. But because I know (the Chinese players) and have trained there ... my thoughts become complicated.---AP journalists Jungho Choi in Seoul, Dennis Passa in Australia and Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.---Foster Klug, APs bureau chief in Seoul, South Korea, is covering table tennis and badminton in Rio. Follow him at www.twitter/apklug ' ' '