Last night topped of a season that will be hard to beat. Carolina easily beat Michigan State in the national championship game. The game was basically over from the opening tip off. By 4 minutes into the game Carolina was already up by double digits. Susan and I got a good laugh when the TV camera showed one of the Michigan State players on the bench with about 9 minutes left in the FIRST HALF and he already had the look on his face like they had lost. In the first half Carolina set a new scoring record in the championship game by scoring 55 points in the half. In the process they also set a new record for biggest lead at half time in a championship game, they were wining by 21 points at the half. Making the game even better Ty Lawson had 8 steals which broke the previous record for steal in the championship game. The record was previous record was 7 held by both Tommy Amaker (from Duke which is why this is so great!) and Mookie Blaylock.
During the regular season Carolina beat Duke twice, won the ACC regular season and Tyler Hansbrough became the ACC’s all time scoring leader. The previous ACC scoring leader was the much hated JJ Redick from Duke so that makes the scoring record all that much better. The regular season alone was enough for a great season and winning the national championship just adds icing to the cake.
With all of this I was already very happy this morning (although VERY tired from staying up so late). Things got better when I woke the kids up. The first thing Anna said when I went is was “did Carolina win?” When I told them they did they were both very excited. Tyler said that no one should play Carolina any more because they are too good and can’t lose. Then when he came out of his room excited about the clothes he had picked out it made things even better!
. We are riding with Tamara on the 1st at noon so Susan is going to have a hard time getting in her 11 hours of sleep that she needs (although I doubt she is going to stay up to watch the game with me).
