In the postgame press conference Tyler Hansbrough nonchalantly said that he guessed the decision to come back for his senior season was a good one.

Was it not quite refreshing to see the Tar Heel studs put winning a collegiate title over making millions?

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Once he arrived in Detroit, Lawson headed straight to the casino to try his luck.

Ty Lawson is the good luck charm for UNC.

It looks as though his lucky streak is a hot one. Lawson won $250 playing craps.

Some media outlets are already passing judgment on Lawson and suggesting that NCAA gambling regulations be enforced.

But Lawson is of legal age and playing craps for about an hour hardly qualifies as a gambling problem. It’s not like he’s the next Charles Barkley or anything.

Cut the kid some slack and let him ride his luck a little bit further. I’m sure that  UNC fans all around the country are hoping his lucky streak carries them through to an NCAA Championship.

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Ty Lawson Has Already Won At The Final Four

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Forget about Villanova’s impressive run to The Motor City—featuring a ‘why the heck did people pick this team to go to Detroit’ (when they were trailing American by double digits) and ‘this Scottie Reynolds is stinking up the joint’ comments from yours truly—Michigan State takes the cake here. Me hailing from Michigan, what a surprise, huh? Well, Tom Izzo and Co. deserve it. MSU is far from dominant, but they’re a fun team. Fun to watch interact with each other, fun to see plead with an irate Izzo, fun to watch on a fast break, fun to analyze which big man (there’s 5) Izzo will usher into the game, and extremely fun to witness pound a ‘powerful’ Big East team into the ground.  Jump on the MSU bandwagon now national media, yeah, own up.

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Villanova- One guy has been playing way over his head. Senior guard/forward Dwayne Anderson. He’s scoring and rebounding over his season average. He does not want to play his last collegiate game.  Give me more Dwayne says.

North Carolina- Tywon Lawson is a top 5, top 10 draft pick?  Probably working himself into the former based on this three game tear where he’s shooting above 50% from inside and outside the long line, feeding and turning over the rock at a 10/1 ratio, and out potty mouthing Ari Gold. If I didn’t know any better I’d say Ty is healthy.

Connecticut- Lanky 6′9 Stanley Robinson sans the opening round game when he scored 24, has just been pretty good, nothing legendary, but he hasn’t needed to be. When Jerome Dyson went down with season ending injury, UConn needed someone to step up, play more minutes and be a threat to consistently score in double figures, and Craig Austrie sure wasn’t going to be that guy. Stanley Robinson is that X-factor guy.

Michigan State- The 6′10 Bosnian senior Goran Suton has been PUURRRE! the last two games, totaling 39 points (5-10 from deep), 19 rebounds, and 6 steals. Don’t know if he’ll be able to be so PUURRRE! against Mr. Thabeet, but if he is, MSU will be playing on Monday for the title.

Prediction For The Final Four

Ford Field will be a Green and White madplace for the Saturday 6:07 tip v. UConn and then for the Monday rematch with UNC.

Prepare.

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Round 3 & 4 Wrap

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That’s a headline bound to make any fight fan drool. Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor versus Thomas “Hitman” Hearns. Sadly, a professional rematch of Pryor’s 1976 light welterweight Golden Gloves victory over Hearns never happened. That’s not to say we won’t see those two last names on a title fight marquee sometime in the future.

Tonight at the San Manuel Casino in Highland, Calif. the scions of those two greats, Aaron Pryor, Jr. and Ronald “The Chosen One” Hearns, continue their path to boxing stardom. Interestingly, the two 29-year-olds have taken strikingly similar routes: both were initially dissuaded from the sport by their fathers, both took up basketball eventually earning college hoops scholarships, both couldn’t resist the genetic urge of the sweet science, both earnestly asked for their famous father’s blessing, both then trained at Detroit’s Kronk gym, and both are currently still undefeated.

Both are also expected to sail through tonight’s matches and achieve bigger and better things. The 6′3″ light middleweight Hearns (18-0) faces San Manuel casino regular Alan Velasco (8-1) while the 6′4 1/2″ middleweight Pryor (9-0) squares off against Puerto Rican Devin Lopez (7-2).

The San Manuel Casino is also promoting appearances tonight by heavyweight great Joe Frazier as well as Thomas Hearns. No word on the Hawk. Let’s hope that young Pryor and Hearns avoid the career ignominy of Frazier’s son Marvis who is best known for dual first round knockouts at the hands of Mike Tyson and Larry Holmes.

If you’re in the San Bernardino area tonight fight tickets are $50, $75, and $100. Doors open at 6:30.

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