UNC-FSU: Tar Heels Press Conference

Posted Mar 10, 2007

"I really felt for Tyler (Hansbrough) today, playing with that mask on. The doctors really wanted him to do it and I was able to convince him to do it today. I don’t know if I’ll be able to convince him to do it tomorrow. It bothered him like it would bother everybody. It’s one of the things that everyone’s forgotten about with all the stuff, that this is a kid that got hurt and I think he tried to play as hard as he possibly could." (Inside Carolina)

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