How the heck is this not a foul?!?
Posted on 03/05/2007 9:24:56 AM PST by Perdogg
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.
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Psycho-T ping
Just when I thought I couldn't hate Dook any more than I already did.
I am not really sure what was worse, the broken nose or the "she was asking for it" comment by Coach-K.
I'll admit - I'm a rabid Duke hater. Why are they ranked 14th? Say they do not win the ACC tournament - in fact, they lose all their remaining games - they will STILL make the tournament, WANNA BET?
Yeah, Coach K's underhanded blaming of Roy for still having his starters in was pretty low-class too.
Amazing.
Talk about being out for blood.
Maybe Dook'll reward Henderson with a free stripper.
As Perdogg pointed out on the other thread, if K thought the game was over, why was HE still calling timeouts?
Heh.
Precious probably needs the work.
From the Associated Press:
Hansbrough's Nose Broken During Ugly Scene Late in Win Over Duke
By JOEDY McCREARY
Posted: Today at 11:56 a.m.
Updated: 22 minutes ago
RALEIGH, N.C. — 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.
The fracture was discovered during an X-ray Monday morning, Williams said during the ACC's weekly coaches' teleconference. Shortly after the game Williams said Hansbrough's nose was not broken.
"I gave some bad information because I had a bad source ... the source was Tyler," Williams said Monday. "It's not completely broken. ... His nose did not have to be set, straightened out or anything like that."
Hansbrough had his nose broken after pulling down the rebound of his own missed free throw and going back up for a layup. Henderson leaped to block the shot and after the ball left Hansbrough's hand, Henderson's right elbow appeared to strike the Tar Heels' center in the nose, sending him crumpling to the ground.
Blood poured down Hansbrough's face and onto his lip, his chin and the court, and he had to be restrained from the Blue Devils as he went to the locker room. Henderson was ejected and received an automatic one-game suspension for Duke's ACC tournament opener against North Carolina State.
"Gerald's intent is to try to stop him from scoring," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "His hand is open, and he's ready to go up. However, the ball never goes up there. ... If it was intentional, he would have come, probably his hand would have been closed and he would have met him head on.
"If I thought he did that intentionally, I would suspend him for longer than a game," he added.
Williams also said that Hansbrough injured a tooth earlier in the game and will probably need a root canal after the season ends.
"I don't think there is any intentional planned thing, 'I'm going to go get the guy,'" Williams said. "I think it was an unfortunate thing that happened during the game."
Because it's a Dookie.
Maybe cause he's enjoying it???....
I hope Duke & Carolina and Maryland and Virginia all continue to beat each other up big time....I'm for Georgia Tech....go Techies!!! ;0 )
Sucker bet. The NCAA would take every team in the ACC if they had to in order to get Duke into the tournament.
As a Kentucky fan, I'm automatically programmed to hate Duke. (Even if our team isn't exactly performing to a Kentucky fan's painfully high standards. *grumbles at the 20-10 record and their latest loss to Florida*)
Good point about "the game was over anyway" and K still calling time outs. How interesting he saved his insipid comments until after time ran off the clock.
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