Video appears to show floor move under UNC’s Armando Bacot on injury

Let’s set up two issues right here.

1.) Carolina wins if Armando Bacot doesn’t go down.

2.) Armando Bacot doesn’t go down if the FREAKING FLOOR DOESN’T MOVE.

Watch this. Insane, man.

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— Marc Ryan (@MarcRyanOnAir) April 5, 2022

Was the ground faulty in Monday’s NCAA championship recreation between Kansas and North Carolina?

Tar Heels followers are sick over hypothesis that the floorboards of the courtroom contained in the Caesars Superdome had been free. In slow-motion footage circulating on-line, UNC ahead Armando Bacot is seen dribbling to the basket throughout an important possession with underneath a minute left within the recreation – and the courtroom seems to maneuver underneath his ft as he rolled his ankle.

Bacot turned the ball over and it was a wrap from there, with the top-seeded Jayhawks mounting a historic comeback to defeat UNC, 72-69.

Armando Bacot seems to roll his ankle after the ground apparently moved contained in the Caesars Superdome

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The 6-foot-11 junior recorded 15 factors, 15 rebounds, and two assists within the crushing loss.

“I used to be simply attempting to drive to the basket,” Bacot stated after the sport. “And I simply form of unconsciously tried to go up off my proper foot. After which that was the ankle that was injured. And I simply rolled it once more.”

Bacot was already enjoying injured after he rolled the identical ankle in Saturday’s win over Duke.

Bacot reacts in ache within the second half of the sport in opposition to Kansas

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He briefly exited with 5:18 to play within the second half earlier than he checked again in and completed the sport.

The courtroom at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans was momentary, because the multi-purpose stadium can be dwelling to the Saints.