Tar Heels doing just fine without Hansbrough

Posted Nov 19, 2008
This wasn't Eastern Kentucky or Kentucky State. It was the University of Kentucky, the Kentucky of Adolph Rupp, Goose Givens and Rick Pitino. And yet, even with the best college basketball player in the nation sitting on the bench looking as GQ as a gangly 6-foot-9 bundle of intensity can look in a black pinstripe suit, North Carolina still rolled over the Wildcats like speed bump in a parking lot Tuesday. (Wilmington Star News)

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