Off the cuff: Against Louisville, Hansbrough passed Sam Perkins to become the second leading scorer in UNC history and he passed Rusty Clark to become the eighth leading rebounder in school history. Hey Tyler, if you come back for your senior year you can possibly become the leading scorer and rebounder in the history of the greatest college basketball program. Or you can go pro early and - oh, who cares, it's the NBA? Remember the black columnist Mike Freeman who wrote unabashedly racist comments about Tyler Hansbrough - saying the reason he was getting all the national accolades was the fact that he is white? He has gone silent about Hansbrough. Freeman has written 12 columns about the NCAA tournament since the column in question and has overlooked Hansbrough in all of them. He did find the time to praise black player Derrick Rose of Memphis in back-to-back columns, including the day after Hansbrough almost singlehanded put the Heels in the Final Four. Rose, after all, according to Freeman, is a future NBA all-star (as if we care and as if that's the way we should measure a college student-athlete's worth) and could start today for a dozen NBA teams. Yawn. He's a "physical freak" and has demonstrated the maturity of a 30-year-old player, according to Freeman. After all, he scored 21 points and got six rebounds in an easy blow-out victory. Meanwhile, in another regional final, Hansbrough only scored 28 and got 13 rebounds in a close,hard-fought affair. Freeman praised another black player, Texas' D.J. Augustin by calling him "mortal but barely" and by writing that he "might be the most intelligent player in the country." It appears that Freeman - and to my knowledge he is not a follower of Rev. Jeremiah Wright but could be - is trying to be a cheerleader for his race. By the way, Freeman seems to be a fan of the Memphis Tigers - and why not, they're the only team in the Final Four that is entirely comprised of black players. He wrote, "While it's possible the Tigers could torpedo the rest of the field - yes, they could easily beat the Tar Heels or UCLA - the Tigers offense remains the basketball equivalent of the 4X100 (relay). They run and gun better than anyone else." As a matter of fact, UNC averages 86 points per game while Memphis averages 79. By the way, have you heard all the Dookies calling up national and regional sports talk shows saying they have been rooting for the Heels so they would match up with Kansas and lose to Roy Williams' former team? They think that will hurt Coach Williams more. I tend to think that Kansas is Coach Williams second favorite team. Callers have also been ragging on Coach Williams for winning a national championship with Matt Doherty-recruited players but never winning a title with his "own players." I tend to think that it's harder to win a title with someone else's players. Nevertheless, maybe that will change real soon.
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