Georgetown upsets Carolina and advances to Final Four

So now we all pooled our money together and bought two Final Four Tickets. At 1800 a pop to sit very high up there it wasnt the best investment, but to see Georgetown play it will be worth it. We looked at tickets on StubHub.com as well as a site called RazorGator.com and found that both of them were just way to expensive. Flights and Hotels are a joke as well. They want you to book for 5 nights basically, we almost want to just sleep in our cars. Showers? We dont need no stinking showers. The most prolific offensive team in the NCAA Tournament stopped scoring. The .stingiest defensive club left standing went on the attack.

And the man of the moment, the player most clearly responsible for Georgetown's first appearance in a Final Four since 1985, turned out to be a former walk-on who made the leap of faith from Princeton to the Big East three years ago.

On a court populated with current and future All-Americans, many with impeccable high school pedigrees, Jonathan .Wallace stood out yesterday.

The junior point guard, who passed up a Princeton education when John Thompson III -- the coach who recruited him -- left for the Washington, D.C., institution, made the biggest shot of the East Regional final, erasing the final three points of an 11-point North Carolina lead with 32 seconds left in regulation. He also made the first basket of overtime, a backdoor layup to trigger an amazing Hoyas run that culminated in a 96-84 win over the top-seeded Tar Heels.

Georgetown (30-6) did what many thought impossible after spotting high-powered Carolina (31-7) a 50-44 lead at intermission and falling behind by 11 with 12:22 left. The Hoyas still trailed by 10, 75-65, with 6:02 to go before pitching a virtual shutout thereafter. They outscored the Tar Heels 16-6 down the stretch, then accounted for the first 14 points of OT before Ty Lawson hit a three-pointer for Carolina with eight seconds remaining.

It was his team's first field goal since a layup by Tyler Hansbrough (26 points, 11 rebounds) 6:32 earlier and broke a 1-for-23 streak in a span of 14:48 for the suddenly bankrupt Heels.

Still, the Hoyas trailed by three when they gained possession after Hansbrough's missed jump shot with 45 seconds left in regulation. While Carolina defenders tried to smother Roy Hibbert and Jeff Green inside, Wallace dribbled into the frontcourt, slipped behind a screen and knocked down the tying shot. On a day when all the Hoyas' starters scored in double figures, his was the most remarkable line: 19 points, seven assists and one turnover in 38 minutes.

"And he never cracked a smile," marveled Hibbert, the 7-2 center who was hampered by foul trouble but still contributed 13 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks. "He's cold as ice."

The shot was so sudden and stunning that Carolina coach Roy Williams went out of his way to congratulate Wallace . afterward. "I told him, 'Son, you made a big-time shot,'" .Williams said. "I think, as a coach, you've got to be proud of him. It was just bad for me he was on the other team."

Of course, the Tar Heels had 32 seconds to make a big-time shot of their own. Unable to penetrate the Georgetown zone, they settled for a perimeter shot by freshman Wayne Ellington, their best three-point shooter. He dribbled to his left and shot across his body, and the ball hit the side of the rim and bounded into Patrick Ewing Jr.'s hands. "I thought he had a good look," Williams said, "but it didn't go in."

That would be the story of the game for the ACC champions. .Ellington went 1-for-6 from behind the arc. The Heels shot 20 treys in all, 16 in the last 25 minutes when their transition game stalled, and hit only five.

Georgetown ended the game with hugs and high-fives for John .Thompson Jr., the radio broadcaster who made the program a national power, and for proud parents Patrick Ewing Sr. and Doc Rivers. Carolina players and fans venerated Michael Jordan after he beat the Hoyas in the 1982 championship game. The Hoyas and their followers will long remember Jonathan Wallace.

"That shot came within the rhythm of the offense," the guard said. "There was no hesitation. I felt comfortable taking it."

Wallace was asked if he would ever tire of talking about it. For a second, he dropped the game face and smiled. "No," he said.

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