Lucas: One Tough G

COLUMBUS—Even Sean May winced when he saw what had happened to Garrison Brooks.

In the exact moment that Brooks took the elbow from Noah Dickerson that split open his lip and caused damage to two of his teeth, no one was exactly sure what had happened. It was obvious a collision had occurred; this wasn't one of those "I think he might be bleeding" moments. Elbow hit tooth and the blood flowed immediately, with Brooks ushered to the locker room straight off the Nationwide Arena court.

A bevy of medical personnel soon surrounded him, with athletic trainer Doug Halverson joined by one of Carolina's team physicians, Dr. Tom Brickner, and a pair of NCAA-mandated dentists who were already at the…