North Carolina senior guard Dexter Strickland was injured last season with a torn acl, but it sounds like he also injured his head.
Strickland spoke with Jeff Goodman recently and told him if the Tarheels didn’t have all the injuries last season, there would have been no question who would have won it all.
I asked him whether he still thought about how everything might have been different last season if Kendall Marshall and he had been on the court for the NCAA tournament — and John Henson had been healthy as well.
“All the time,” he said. “I’ll be honest. If nobody got hurt, you might as well have given us the trophy. Nobody had the ability to stop us.”
I don’t agree it would have been a sure thing, but it certainly would have been one heck of a game that could have gone either way. Remember, Kentucky needed an Anthony Davis last-second block to take care of the Tar Heels earlier in the season at Rupp.
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas all year around.
