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Following the NCAA Tournament
WRAL and 99.9 The Fan will keep you updated on the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts as the games unfold.
It was rock, chalk and a whole lotta Jayhawk.
And for Carolina fans, it was not a pretty sight.
Kansas hit the Tar Heels with a basketball blitz, leading 40-12 at one point and leaving Carolina bewildered.
“This is the first time this North Carolina team panicked,” said junior Marcus Ginyard. “Kansas threw the biggest challenge at us we have seen and it took too long for us to respond.”
It was the last thing I thought I would see this weekend. If anything, I thought Kansas would be the team coming out tight.
Looks like I was about as wrong as wrong can be.
Kansas had every reason to be distracted. Their alumni base wanted a victory over Roy Williams more than anything, and the pressure to win this game had to be severe. Top that off with Oklahoma State’s interest in hiring coach Bill Self away from KU, and you have all the ingredients for a team to be shell-shocked.
But instead,...
From somewhere in the State of North Carolina 99.9 the Fan's morning show host Mike Maniscalco will give his thoughts on UNC's Final Four match-up.
WRAL's Ryan Craig is following the action from Charlotte, as Carolina looks to reach the final four for the second time in four years.
Scott Jackson of 99.9 FM The Fan is following UNC's game with Washington State in the NCAA Tournament in Charlotte.
Sitting in his home on Easter Sunday, 99.9fm The Fan's Mike Maniscalco will give his perspective on how the Heels and Razorbacks will play out.
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