North Carolina bloodied but standing after Duke win

Posted Mar 5, 2007

It was a bizarre ending to an already strange ACC basketball season that endured several roller coaster rides only to fly off the tracks in the final moments. When the screaming was over, there was the angry, red-smeared face of Tyler Hansbrough and there were his white-and powder-blue North Carolina Tar Heels walking down Tobacco Road as regular-season ACC champs. Bloodied, yes. But that might serve them well. (USA Today)

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