Raleigh is like home

Posted Mar 21, 2008

Ordinarily, a trip to the RBC Center is a venture into venom for Tyler Hansbrough and UNC. But this week the RBC Center is less the home court of NC State than it is an NCAA Tournament site about 20 miles from the UNC campus. "It's definitely a different feeling coming in here without people yelling at you telling you how bad you are," Hansbrough said. "The people at the door greeted me this time … 'How you doing, Tyler?'" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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