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Ty Lawson Update
Published 2/4/2008 by Tar Heel Fan at Tar Heel Fan
X-rays were negative on Ty Lawson’s high ankle sprain but Roy is not expecting him to play on Wednesday. Whether that is Roy hiding his cards or giving a straightforward assessment is anyone’s guess. He does not strike me as one to opt for the Bellicheckian methods of cloaking injury situations to try and gain some sort of tactical advantage because it is not like Duke is going to suddenly change their defense at the possibility Lawson is not playing. At this point this is very much looking like a possible repeat of the January 18, 1989 game with Duke where UNC faced the #1 ranked Blue Devils without starting PG Jeff Lebo who was injured in a 106-83 loss at UVa. UNC was ranked #13 and ...

A Long Monday.....
Published 2/5/2008 by Ed at ACC BasketBlog
Congrats to the SuperBowl Champ New York Giants, and, what will the Heels do without Lawson? A couple of more tidbits: McCauley's slam downs Deacons Ben McCauley's follow slam of Gavin Grant's missed shot, with barely one-tenth of a second left, gave the Wolfpack a 67-65 victory over the Demon Deacons at the RBC Center. X-rays negative on UNC's Lawson X-rays on UNC point guard Ty Lawson’s sprained right ankle were negative today, coach Roy Williams said. But “I don’t feel real good about him playing” against Duke, he added. ...