News & Observer · Feb 9, 2017
Duke-UNC flashback: 10 years since Tyler Hansbrough’s bloody nose
It was 10 years ago this season that North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough went down with a bloody nose after being hit during a flagrant foul by Duke’s Gerald Henderson in Chapel Hill on March 4, 2007. Henderson was ejected and UNC won, 86-72.
Here’s our story, originally published on March 5, 2007, on what happened during and after the foul.
The Duke men’s basketball team has to endure one more twist to an already difficult season.
The 14th-ranked Blue Devils’ regular-season finale had a unpleasant finish when freshman Gerald Henderson was ejected from the loss to No. 8 North Carolina after he flagrantly fouled UNC sophomore Tyler Hansbrough in the game’s final seconds.