VOLUME 116, ISSUE 25 66 @ #B4 END OF THE ROAD Tar Heels come up short in Final Four BY GREGG FOUND SENIOR WRITER SAN ANTONIO - North Carolina came to the Alamodome with dreams of a national title, \isions of completing a magnificent season by hoisting the cham pionship trophy high in celebration. After 14 minutes of play Saturday, those visions were dashed. Instead, UNC saw a blue-and red streak of Kansas Jayhawks who stole the ball, raced down court and dropped in layup after layup. Try as they might to mount a comeback that would have gone down as the best in history, the Tar Heels tired out before they could complete the task, falling to Kansas 84-66. The team finished with a school record for wins in a season, but its final goal went unfinished. “This bunch did INSIDE More basketball coverage. PAGE 6 ONLINE A DTH photo slideshow from the game. a some great, great things," coach Roy Williams said. “But we’re extremely dis appointed right now because we had a bigger dream." The same force that allowed the Tar Heels to lead the ACC, win the confer ence tournament and plow through NCAA tournament games in Raleigh and Charlotte just vanished in San Afttonio. Kansas instead seized control imme diately by forcing turnovers, attacking at even- position and commanding the game's pace. As the UNC crowd watched in horror and disbelief, the score reached 40-12 with 6:48 left in the first half. UNC (36- 3) was getting beaten at its own game. “It was like, that wasn’t North Carolina out there," senior Quentin Thomas said. “I told someone, it looked like we have never played basketball before." No combination of players or strate- SEE DEFEAT, PAGE 5 Jl I DTH/LAUREN COWART Tyler Hansbrough contemplates UNC’s 84-66 loss in the postgame news conference in San Antonio. Hansbrough scored 17 points. Peer chancellors paid more BY KEVIN KILEY STAFF WRITER Not only does it take a lot of money to run a university, but it also takes quite a bit to get some one to run it For UNC it most likely will take a lot more in the future. As university leaders’ salaries have increased around the country, Chancellor James Moeser’s salary, recently raised to $390,835, is only slightly more than half of some of his peers’ at other public institutions. That’s what UNC will have to grapple with as it searches for its next chancellor, whom University sports | page 12 UNC BASEBALL The No. 3 Tar Heels won two of their three weekend games against Georgia Tech in Cary. Chad Flack broke UNC’s all-time hits record Sunday in the team's loss. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ohc lailu (Ear Tlrri IIbHI "tk •ff fffiTOh I " m W - k I V ’ & |§ir . x J3m -S. ;; .■■■■ : - ' - ' - JB& SsHflflßßß* 4 Ik J W mWrZb M \ 'off DTH.IAUREN COWART North Carolina junior forward Tyler Hansbrough gets rejected by Kansas' Darrell Arthur in the first half of UNC’s 84-66 loss in the Final Four on Saturday night in San Antonio. The Jayhawks will play Memphis for the national championship tonight. officials hope to select before July. “We haven’t gotten to the point where we’re really considering the salary," said Nelson Schwab, chair man of the chancellor search com mittee. “We’re just looking for the best candidates, and when we get to that point we’ll figure it out” But when the field is narrowed, they will start negotiating payment. Schwab said the salary will be based on three criteria: the mar ket the institutions in UNC’s peer group and how much the candi dates are making. And all three factors point to the next chancellor’s salary being city | page 9 STUDYING THE EU Three local high school students will travel to New York City later this month to test their knowledge of the European Union and its economy. www.dallytarheel.coin KU post gives Hansbrough fits BY JESSE BAUMGARNTER SENIOR WRITER SAN ANTONIO - Tyler Hansbrough sat in front of his locker Saturday night, head down and hands interlocked in the aftermath of Kansas' shocking siege at the Alamodome that pro duced a 40-12 lead the Jayhawks never would relinquish. Raising his head once in a while to reveal cloudy, glazed eyes, he delivered short, mono tone answers in an altered voice, as if he had just taken a right hook to the gut. larger than Moeser’s. 'Below the average' In 2005 there were only two public institutions whose execu tives made more than $700,000. Now there are eight “We’re seeing the average number moving up to around $500,000,” Schwab said. At private institutions the trend has been even more pronounced. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the median salary of pri- SEE SALARY, PAGE 5 flnflnk ■' jy~ 11 / JBM &^J||lp|k “Everything (went wrong),’ he said in what amounted to a hoarse whisper. “We couldn't get stops; we couldn’t make baskets. I mean, you saw the game just didn’t execute." On the greatest stage in col lege basketball and in search of the prize Hansbrough holds far above the mountain of trophies he has earned, the Player of the Year finally ran into a front line that refused to let him dominate thegame. f The Jayhawks’ four-man wrecking crew of 6-foot-9-inch Chancellor salaries PFHMIfIMif i IttEEESISn,-.:. HQliUMiSSQurban.! Champaign I | f ■EuZsUuEfcrNi Djego UNC $352,848 ■BiEUtfSlUadison ■EX-3213 Davis —■ i ~—t— -*—— l — l 0 $200,000 $400,000 $600,000 SOURCE: RESPECTIVE UNIVERSITIES 2006-07 DATA DTHIREBECCA ROtFE state | pagr 4 FARMWORKER WEEK UNC farmworker solidarity group Alianza held a potiuck dinner to conclude Farmworker Awareness Week. Students questioned the workers about their lives. By the numbers: UNC vs. Kansas 40-12 Kansas' largest lead, with 6:48 left in the first half 29% UNC's shooting percentage in the first half 54.5% Kansas' shooting percentage in the first half 42-33 Kansas' rebounding advantage over UNC 7 Assists by UNC 17 Assists by Kansas Darrell Arthur, 6-foot-8-inch Darnell Jackson, 6-foot-l 1-inch Sasha Kaun and 6-foot-l 1-inch Cole Aldrich formed platoons on Hansbrough the entire game, countering his physicality and doubling down in the post. Granted. Hansbrough finished with 17 points and nine rebounds on 6-for-13 shooting, but those were both below his averages and came on a night when UNC needed more, thanks to below freezing shooting from the rest of the team. “We didn’t let him, except Nichols to serve as next DTH editor BY MARY COLE ALLEN STAFF WRITER Junior Allison Nichols was selected Saturday as the 142nd edi tor-in-chief ofThe Daily Tar Heel. Nichols will serve as editor-in chief for the 2008-09 academic year. She plans to strengthen online coverage and expand multimedia. “It’s hard to describe what I felt when I found out,” Nichols said. “The shock and excitement are still sinking in." An 11-member committee of this day in history APRIL 7.2000... Theta Nu Xi multicultural sorority Inc plans its second annual Sherehel, a free public benefit concert for the Orange County Rape Crisis Center. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008 for two or three times, split the trap,' Kansas coach Bill Self said. “We made him score over us as opposed to giving him an angle, and we thought that was a big key." Aldrich, the lineman-sized freshman, was the shocking addi tion to the defensive operation. After averaging just 8.1 minutes a game coming into Saturday, the behemoth gave Self 17 minutes of hard-nosed play. Thirteen of those came during SEE HANSBROUGH, PAGE 5 Junior Allison Nichols was picked by an 11-member panel Saturday to be the next DTH editor. DTH staffers, students and com munity members interviewed Nichols and the other candidate, SEE EDITOR, PAGE 5 weather Cloudy H 57, L 64 index police log 2 calendar J 2 opinion g games : ,_ll sports 12

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