Hansbrough (suffers broken nose) likely to play in ACC tourney with mask

Tyler Hansbrough will probably play in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament despite breaking his nose during the blood-filled final seconds of No. 8 North Carolina's victory over 14th-ranked Duke on Sunday.

Hansbrough suffered what coach Roy Williams said Monday was a small nondisplaced fracture when Duke's Gerald Henderson flagrantly fouled him with 14.5 seconds left in the Tar Heels' 86-72 win.

Williams said Hansbrough is being fitted with a custom-made protective mask and should be ready for North Carolina's first tournament game Friday. Hansbrough leads the team and ranks among the ACC's leaders with averages of 18.8 points and 8.0 rebounds.

Well - sorry it's broken. I knew it had to be the way he was bleeding and watching the replays. Hope he gets to practice in the mask enough to feel comfortable to go out there and put in some more games like the win over Duke. Tyler was nothing short of awesome....now wonder Henderson hammered him.

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Tyler thinks the basketball belongs to him. He always has.

If Tyler had a reputation of blooding noses it would be different. He's probably been fouled more and fouled less than anybody I've ever seen play basketball. He's been triple teamed all through high school and I'd hoped he would get a break when he went to S.C. but he's still a threat and still multi-teamed. He loves playing at S.C. Coach Roy wrote him letters everday when he was in his senior year at PBHS and I myself am forever greatful for coach Roy's determination.You can't see his number, but it's 50. Coach Roy said he could have his high school number at N.C.

His grandmother Dorris Ann divorced his grandfather Rodgers Fister, a grapefruit leage umpire and a very questionable person of interest,and left Sarasota Florida with her seven kids in a Volkswagon and headed to Poplar Bluff, Mo.

She met up with Todd Shelton (a divorce man himself with three kids) and they got married. They lived next door to Doctors Regional Medical Center where Todd was an X-ray technition.

These are the children of Dorris Ann Fister

Victoria Dawn
Peter Dan
Kevin
Sean
Tammy (Tylers mother)
Lisa
Corbett

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