Tyler Hansbrough
Yes, it is that week end again when all the talk around here is the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. I’m sure that wherever you live there is some such critter. At the NCAA Selection Show tomorrow some 65 teams will be picked from around the nation for the NCCA battles. What is so amazing is how many of these games can come down to the last five or ten or fifteen seconds and SWISH…the lead changes and a team comes out victorious.
In other words, some team might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory or some such thing in the flash of an eye. In the Virginia Tech-Carolina game Friday we watched it get down to the final seconds and I could feel it in my bones that Carolina might lose. Carolina was leading by one point but Virginia Tech had the ball and was threatening. Then somehow #50 Tyler Hansbrough tied up the ball, it was Carolina’s possession in the rotation, and they managed to run out the clock for the few seconds remaining to win by ONE POINT. Neither my wife nor I could understand that play it happened so fast, and we had to wait for a game summary later to find out what happened.
The Virginia Tech coach was so upset by the call that he ranted and he raved, he waved his arms and then he took off his coat and threw it on the bench and it was a beautiful sight to behold in this wonderful town of Hillsborough, North Carolina just a few miles from Chapel Hill, the home of the UNC Tar Heels. May God bless America and keep the fans, together with our troops from harm.
