Off the cuff: An intentional foul by Kent State's Al Fisher on Hansbrough in the first half got under Coach Wiliams skin a bit. "I'm tired of it," Williams said. "Everybody thnks it's ok to break the guy in half." It was a bad foul but the Carolina students continued reaction to it was a bit ridiculous. They booed the guy every time he touched the ball for the rest of the game. First, how can you really pay attention to the game when you're focused on waiting for Fisher to get the ball so you can boo him? Second, it gives him more attention than he deserved. Boo him at the time but leave it behind. Hansbrough surely did as he went on to have one of his best games of the year. Some ballsy fan for Kent State heckled Carolina players at the foul line. It's a good thing Carolina fans are nice - he might not have made it out of Cameron acting like that. Oh, and it didn't work as Carolina was 17 of 20. Coach Smith once told me that he had done a study and determined that fan's yelling and waving their hands had no affect on free throw percentages and only showed poor sportsmanship of those doing it. That Quaintance guy was pretty amazing but with the hair and the bulging eyes after he was called for a foul he felt he did not commit, he looked just like Buckwheat. O tay! Ok, I'm getting tired of mentioning the "air ball" thing but I'm not giving up my effort. Woody Durham used the term "air ball" twice and Carolina students used it several times to continue to heckle a player who had earlier missed the basket. As a reminder, the air ball chant was invented by Duke students when UNC's Rich Yonaker missed everything at a key moment in a game at Cameron in 1979. Not only do we not need to remind ourselves of it each game, we should have more creativity than to steal a Duke cheer. The subs came in for Carolina with 3:17 to play but lost by a point. It was 84-54 when they came in. They gave up seven points and scored six including a dunk by Surry Wood at the buzzer.
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