Duke-UNC flashback: 10 years since Tyler Hansbrough’s bloody nose
Posted Feb 9, 2017
It was 10 years ago this season that North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough went down with a bloody nose after being hit during a flagrant foul by Duke’s Gerald Henderson in Chapel Hill on March 4, 2007. Henderson was ejected and UNC won, 86-72. Here’s our story, originally published on March 5, 2007, on what happened during and after the foul.
(Charlotte Observer)
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