Sooner showdown
Posted Mar 29, 2009
Few would dispute the perception that Oklahoma's Blake Griffin is the best college basketball player in the nation this season. Tyler Hansbrough might think otherwise. With a trip to the Final Four on the line, Hansbrough, the 2008 consensus national player of the year, will take the court against Blake Griffin, the powerful sophomore forward who has already won the Rupp Award and is expected to sweep the rest of the national player of the year trophies.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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