BTW, I think it was Harrison Beck who was throwing stuff onto the court, but to his credit, he was aiming for the trash can on his way out of the RBC. Dude has a hell of an arm.

i do think it is an intentionally hard foul when a guy smacks the player across the head with his arm from behind and then walks off the court saying “not in my house.” however, i don’t blame mccauley for not appreciating a unc player wanting to score in that sitaution. and i also don’t blame cope for going after the guy in the heat of the moment. seriously, most of us would have done that.

rathskellar, i agree with your standings for the most part. although in that case, wake seems to not be getting any credit for beating a #1 team. i might swap pitt for wake.

props to Steve–always classy, but remember Steve–Kenny Smith, Tyler, Ty–it’s not like similar stuff hasn’t happened before, but I’m like william-don’t get mad, get even.

1) Result was as expected, so not a tough loss at all for me. At no time did I think, “hey, we could win this.”
2) Ty Lawson was really good today. It looked like he decided to play some defense.
3) State is slow of foot and does not have much leadership on the court
4) State really needs an ACC caliber point guard. I’d take a C-USA caliber point guard at this point.
5) State has a lot of “spare parts” – guys who could contribute on a stronger team, but no one who can take charge and lead.
6) The McCauley-Copeland incident was handled pretty well by officials and coaches. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal – a hard foul correctly called intentional and some overreaction in the heat of battle.

Enjoy watching your team the rest of the way – should be fun for you.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone remember the last time we’ve seen a UNC player take a shot like this? Maybe going back to the Rice/Reid/Bucknall group (or the Frank McGuire group), one could cite an example, but thankfully, it’s just not done at UNC.

It was a hard foul. Was it cheap? No. McCauley was going to make sure Copeland didn’t score and was going for the ball.

Was it out of frustration? Probably. I think McCauley felt Copeland, lets face it is a bench warmer who was trying to score when he got in, was trying to tack on one more that was unnecessary at NC State’s court.

Got to defend McCauley on this one. It was a hard foul, but it wasn’t a cheap shot. If you are going to try and score in the last second when you are leading by 15 on the road in the ACC you better expect someone to try and stop you.

Just an honest opinion from an outsider on the situation. I would have done the same thing back in my HS days.

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