News - Danny Green
Ty Lawson scored 19 points Sunday and top-seeded North Carolina booked a spot in the Final Four with a 72-60 win over Oklahoma in the South Region final. UNC led the contest at Memphis's FedEx Forum 32-23 at the break. In its second straight Four appearance, it will face No.
Tyler Hansbrough scored 22 points Thursday and became the ACC's all-time scoring leader when North Carolina trounced Radford 101-58. The contest at the Greensboro Coliseum was a first-round matchup in the NCAA Tournament's South Region. The winners raced away from a 13-11 advantage to lead, 53-34, at the half, and held a double-digit advantage the entire second half. Hansbrough's 2,789 career points surpassed the 2,769 scored by Duke's J.J.
Tyler Hansbrough's 17 points and eight rebounds Sunday led No. 2 North Carolina to a 79-71 win over No.
Tyler Hansbrough set an NCAA free-throw record Saturday in fifth-ranked North Carolina's 104-74 victory over Georgia Tech. Hansbrough, who had 28 points and 10 rebounds, was 8-for-8 from the foul line to give him an NCAA career total of 907 free throws.
Greivis Vasquez had 35 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists Saturday to lead Maryland to an 88-85 overtime win over third-ranked North Carolina. Vasquez sank two three-pointers and a total of eight points in overtime.
