Superdome Floor Being Blamed For Injuring Armando Bacot’s Ankle

North Carolina’s Armando Bacot was a double-double machine throughout the tourney. He had an incredible run to the national championship game in men’s March Madness.

But it was an ankle injury in the Final Four win over Duke that had everyone worried on how much he’d be able to contribute in the National Championship game. For the most part it held up, but with under a minute to go and North Carolina was down by one, Bacot was driving to the hoop when his right ankle gave out from under him and he slipped.

His ankle once again was injured.

Videos from that moment emerged with everyone wondering, was it the Superdome court that was to blame?

It looked like he slipped:

Bacot slips going to the basket. pic.twitter.com/SRZptx5iMY

— Troy Machir (@TroyMachir) April 5, 2022

Shoutout to Armando Bacot

Gave it his all, even through injury 🙏 pic.twitter.com/AV6e81OCc8

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 5, 2022

Here’s another interesting look at the play:

When the NCAA got rid of all the local flavor from the NCAA tournament, they did so in the interest of creating a "uniform court." IS this uniform? pic.twitter.com/VLK70MxekW

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) April 5, 2022

Armando Bacot injured his ankle on a loose floorboard.

A LOOSE FLOORBOARD AT THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. pic.twitter.com/Ion0BCqly6

— Troy Machir (@TroyMachir) April 5, 2022

In real time it did look like something moved.

Actually, when you blow it up this much it looks to me like natural flex of the court with a shadow making it look like a loose floorboard https://t.co/KCNo6KQnCz

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) April 5, 2022

Floor bending when Bacot rolls his ankle. Vegas?? Buffalo Wild Wings guys pushing buttons??? #ThisIsMarch pic.twitter.com/PuMSwL8Dvp

— Burg (@Zachschwartz55) April 5, 2022

Here is a better view of the floor moving opened Bacot turned his ankle. https://t.co/f1FhWEREJ4

— Brian Barbour (@briancbarbour) April 5, 2022

Injuries are just part of the game, but you don’t want to ever see someone get injured by a loose floorboard, if that’s what actually happened.

What a game though.

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