Final Four Bound

When I make this comment you must remember that I have only lived in the area since 1995.  Montrezl Harrell freshman basketball player of the Louisville Cardinals is heading to the final four.  My knowledge tells me that no Twin County area player has played in the NCAA final four since Rocky Mount's George McLean was of member of the 1983 N C State WolfPack.  If you know of any other player let me hear it.

After the way Louisville played last night you might say that Harrell made the right decision when after committing to play at Virginia Tech but changed his mind once VT fired their coach.  I have Louisville in  everyone of pools and thought they would beat Duke last night.  Once the Cardinal player broke his leg in the first half  I thought that gave the Cardinals  that added inspiration to win.

I commend CBS's coverage of the injury.  Since it is easy when watching on TV to be able to see what is happening there are no words to improve the situation. Their silence through most of the nine minutes was the right thing to do. Radio you have a different situation that you have to describe what happened but TV did the right thing here.  The injury was about the worst on field injury since Joe Theisman broke his leg back in 1986 on Monday night football.

Sure does seem that the only way to beat Benton Moss these days for the UNC baseball team is to rain him out.  I hope you had the opportunity to watch Benton in the two and two thirds innings  before the rains came last night of Fox Sports South.  He struck out six and no one reached base until a walk in the pouring rain.  The game will be finished today without Benton going back out in the game.  The Tar Heels are again on ESPNU at 6pm tonight and there is a good chance that Hobbs Johnson will start that game for the Heels.

Rocky Mount High  game was rained out and whether it is made up at this point not sure.  They will play at 10am Tuesday against Greene Central.