Source: AP/ACC Now
Apparently Tyler Hansbrough’s mere presence at the White House scared the Iranians enough they called to say they were shutting down their nuclear program.
UPDATE: THF reader, Leann, attended the event and sends along these photos.
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I’m surprised the team didn’t get a special “champ’s tax” from Obama for winning.
I’m so proud of Tyler, he wore a different suit!
Awesome.
Is that the back of Steve Kirschner’s head (far right) in Leann’s first pic?
briarcliff: Yes, it was. I sat right behind Steve the whole time and seated a couple seats down from him was Jonas.
I’m jealous, Leann. Just so you know.
Actually, I’m rather upset with myself. When it was over, I left to return to work. Little did I know that the exit I took was the same exit the team came out when they left. I’m kicking myself for not sticking around and talking to Adam Lucas a bit longer.
Leann — At one time I worked at the White House, but the best I got was a guaranteed ticket to the Easter Egg Roll.
Actually, I did get a few neater things than that, the niftiest of which was tickets to the President’s Box at the Kennedy Center. I was lucky — I was not an Assistant to the President, which is usually the rank at which access to such tickets stops — but I caught some breaks. The biggest of these was that I was infatuated with the Associate Counsel to the President, and for reasons unknown she seemed to like me too.
We got married the next year.
So I can hardly complain. Still, I would dearly have loved to have been in your shoes today. Congratulations to you! It is a high honor indeed to work there. And thank you for taking and then sending along the pictures.
Hey Rath, I went to my class’s 40th reunion at UNC this past weekend. During the campus tour, our guide took us to the South Building parking lot where the chancellor parks his car. She showed us the b’ball court painted the night of the national championship game in his slot by a good friend of his, with the notation of 2009 national champs.
Wouldn’t you know that as we were admiring the artwork, Chancellor Thorp drove up in his Miata and parked it inside the foul lines. It was really neat, almost as if it were planned that way.
LarryP — Can Thorp play the point? We’re going to need some backup for Drew.
Congratulations on your 40th reunion. You and I were there at roughly the same time, although, as to the exact dates, I respectfully invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege, as my answer might tend to expose me as a dinosaur.
And here I was thinking the “68″ on your tag indicated your class year. Silly me.
Thorp can play the keyboard and guitar. Maybe he plays point in his band.
President Obama stole Marcus Ginyard’s number…jk.
Alex, OMG HE DID!!!!!!!
I said the same thing about the number, Claire.
The fact that the team was at the White House is just another “pinch me” moment. Did the team visit the White House in 2005? I know that Coach K was salivating at the opportunity to shake hands with W back in 2001.
Has anyone noticed that K seems to have great success under first-term presidents whose last names are Bush?
89-92: Four years, four final fours, two NCAA titles.
01-04: Four years, two final fours, one NCAA title.
Well, I know one silly Rat who is hoping Jeb Bush runs for the front office in 2012. Silly Rat.
Roy doesn’t seem to mind who’s in charge, for the last five years he has simply been the best coach in college basketball.
Carolina did not visit the White House in 1982 or 2005 but did in 1993 and 2009. I choose to draw my own conclusions about the reasons for this.
Wasn’t there someone from Dook (an alumni) that was suppose to be there but refused to be a part of this. I heard WRAL saying something about it.
As far as the jersey number, I would have given Obama a “zero” jersey and let Ginyard keep his number.
Reggie Love is Obama’s personal assistant or “body man.” Love was the player who went to a frat party in Chapel Hill and ended up passed out drunk on the couch. The frat boys took some fairly humorous photos of Love which I think involved painting his face.
Also, the WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is an NCSU graduate.
“Also, the WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is an NCSU graduate.”
No wonder he can’t get out a coherent sentence. But I’ll bet he’s top-notch at saying “moo.”
Good one, Rath.
Maybe that is also why he relies on the telepromptor too much like Obama. If only they can get Biden to learn to actually read from it, he might actually not say something LAME.