Greg Bailey NewsChannel 36 Sports Director

Happy and healthy. Nothing else matters much if you don't have those two key ingredients.

North Carolina basketball has already found that out the hard way and we're still two weeks from the first regular season game.

This is a great team in waiting. A dominant, record setting, beat up on everybody kind of team. But right now the "in waiting" part trumps everything else with Tyler Hansbrough's injury.


Below is the release from UNC officials sent late Friday.

Bone Scan Confirms Stress Reaction, Likely Out at Least Two Weeks

Chapel Hill -- Carolina men's basketball senior forward Tyler Hansbrough underwent a bone scan today on his right shin that confirmed he has a stress reaction, but there is not a fracture, head coach Roy Williams announced this evening.

"Tyler had some tests today that gave us more information," Williams says. "There is a great possibility that we will hold Tyler out of practice for the next two weeks, then re-evaluate his condition at that time.

"Of course we are all disappointed for Tyler and our team, but everybody on the roster has a chance to do a little more and play a little better to help make up for the loss of the national player of the year."

Hansbrough did not miss a single practice his freshman and sophomore seasons and only one his junior year. That came the night after he played 47 minutes in a double overtime win over Clemson, a game in which he played with an infected toe on his right foot.

---