Your shot was useless from both the perimeter and around the basket, and you didn't have the lateral movement to defend anyone-not even my dad scrimmaging in a bagels-and-basketball Sunday league.
You suffered more injuries than Allan Houston (ok, maybe a slight exaggeration), and Coach K decided to go with five guards instead of substituting you into the Sweet 16 game against Michigan State last season when Shelden Williams fouled out of your final game as a Blue Devil.
It gets emotional, but the Duke reserve had to be physically restrained from hitting referee Bruce Benedict following the Hoosiers-Blue Devils game. Although we aren't sure Christensen was actually going to punch Benedict, he did sort of throw his fist in rage. Not good. Making it even worse is we are not sure what he was mad about. There was no significant foul on Boozer's shot. If a foul had been whistled on that one the Duke referee conspiracy theory would have to be believed.
The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee has issued a public reprimand to Duke University student-athlete Matt Christensen for verbally assaulting and making physical contact with a member of the officiating crew after Duke's regional semifinal loss to Indiana University, Bloomington, in the 2002 championship. The committee also directed Christensen to write a letter of apology to the official, which he has done. In addition, the committee will withhold from Duke the per diem for Christensen's participation in the regional semifinal. Lee Fowler, committee chair and director of athletics at North Carolina State University, said that had Christensen not exhausted his intercollegiate athletics eligibility at the end of the 2002 season, the committee would have suspended him from at least the next NCAA tournament game in which Duke participated
Matt went on to win the Coach's Award (Player Exemplifying the Commitment and Values of Duke Basketball)
