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Off the cuff: I'm starting to wonder if we'll see an entire Carolina basketball game this year. If it's not a game running late, it's weather break-ins as was the case in this game. I imagine most areas of the state did not have the breaki-ins but those in the WRAL viewing area did. Unless a tornado is spotted or imminent, you'd think it could wait until a stoppage of play. In fact, WRAL started the game with the weatherman talking and then went to a commercial while play was still going on. We basically missed the first couple of minutes of the game. Not only did the weather force us to have interruptions and constant beeps and weather scrolls running across the bottom, but the local radio station airing the broadcast was knocked off the air several times by bad weather. I mentioned before how I longed for the C.D. Chesley broadcasts. I thought about it again today as I remembered watching the pre-game senior day ceremonies. I'll never forget Phil Ford, who always seemed to have his emotions in check, crying like a baby at mid-court at Carmichael. We don't get to see those kinds of things anymore. Commercials are more important today I suppose. Quentin Thomas scored eight points on his senior night. It looked as if he intentionally fouled at the end to get his fifth foul. It did afford him the opportunity of getting a standing ovation. Coach Roy Williams put Surry Wood in at the beginning and he scored twice and then he let Wood in briefly at the end so he could take him back out for an ovation. At one point in the season, one of Carolina's announcers called the late-game subs "the blue team." But they are not a Blue Team, which was employed by Dean Smith to give the starters a break, change the tempo, or provide a boost. These subs, who were outscored 10-0 in the last minute, may be good practice players, but they are basically, and sadly, just scrubs.
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