He didn’t get punched.
Despite rumors and apparent video evidence, Brown Walters, the director of UNC spirit programs, said the student in the Rameses costume was not punched at the men’s basketball NCAA championship game.
After the tragic UNC loss in the national championship game Monday, a video surfaced on the internet showing what appeared to be a fan punching Rameses in his oversized face.
Walters said it didn’t happen.
“He is fine. He was not assaulted by any stretch of the imagination,” he said.
Walters said the questionable footage shows the chaos at the end of the game as workers prepared for the awards ceremony.