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Tyler Hansbrough
Hansbrough practicing for a 2008 NCAA tournament game
CollegeNorth Carolina
ConferenceACC
SportBasketball
PositionForward
Jersey #50
ClassJunior
NicknamePsycho-T[1]
Career2005–present
Height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Weight245 lb (111 kg)
NationalityUSA
Born (1985-11-03) November 3, 1985 (age 38)
Columbia, Missouri
High schoolPoplar Bluff HS,
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Career highlights
Honors
2008 Sporting News national player of the year
2008 Sports Illustrated national player of the year
2008 ESPN.com national player of the year
2008 Rupp Award Player of the Year
2008 ACC Tournament MVP
2008 ACC Player of the Year
2008 First-Team All ACC
2007 First-Team All ACC
2006 ACC Freshman of the Year
2006 First-Team All ACC
Tournaments
2008 NCAA Tournament
2007 NCAA Tournament
2006 NCAA Tournament

Andrew Tyler Hansbrough (born November 3 1985 in Columbia, Missouri), is an American collegiate basketball player for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team. Hansbrough was a unanimous selection for the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team[2], 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year, and 2008 ACC Conference Player of the Year. Hansbrough has also been awarded the 2008 Sports Illustrated and Sporting News National Player of the Year award, the latter of which qualifies him to have his number 50 retired by the University of North Carolina.[3] Hansbrough is the son of Tami Wheat and Dr. Gene Hansbrough and brother of current Mississippi State University player Ben Hansbrough.

High school career

Hansbrough attended Poplar Bluff High School in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and led the Mules to consecutive Missouri state championships (Missouri State High School Activities Association) Class 5 for the 2003-2004[4] and 2004-2005[5] seasons. In 2005, Hansbrough helped Poplar Bluff beat the then undefeated and number one team in the nation, Vashon High School.[6] While in high school he made the Missouri All-State team twice and averaged 28.2 points and 13.4 rebounds per game as a senior. Due to his growing popularity, ESPN featured a high school game on ESPN2 in which Hansbrough's Mules were beaten 56-40 by Greg Oden and his high school team. Hansbrough accepted an offer to play basketball for North Carolina, turning down scholarship offers to play at Duke, Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky[7].

Collegiate career

Freshman season

Tyler Hansbrough led the University of North Carolina in scoring with an average of 18.9 points per game.[8] He was second in the ACC in scoring behind J. J. Redick of Duke. Additionally, Hansbrough was unanimously selected as the 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year and was also a unanimous selection to the 2006 All Conference Team. This marked the first time that a freshman had ever been unanimously given 1st team All-ACC honors.[9] He was second to Redick in voting for the ACC Player of the Year award. Hansbrough’s best game as a freshman came on February 15, 2006 when he scored 40 points in a home game against Georgia Tech.[10] This mark set the record for most points ever scored by a freshman in a game in ACC history and for the most points scored in the Dean Smith Center (the previous high had been 38 points by Joseph Forte in 2000 vs. Tulsa).[11]

Sophomore season

With the University of North Carolina signing what was often considered to be the best recruiting class in the country in 2006,[12] Tyler Hansbrough’s minutes per game took a slight drop but he was just as productive as he was during his freshman season. At the end of the regular season, Hansbrough was averaging 18.8 points per game along with 8.0 rebounds per game.

During the March 4, 2007 matchup with Duke University, Hansbrough scored 26 points and grabbed 17 rebounds while leading the Tar Heels to an 86-72 victory. With 14.5 seconds remaining in the game, Duke's Gerald Henderson, Jr. crashed into Hansbrough and hit him in the face with his right elbow, resulting in a broken nose.[13] Henderson was ejected from the game and received an automatic one-game suspension from the NCAA. Hansbrough went on to play with a nose-guard/face mask through the postseason, before taking it off in the second half of a game against Michigan State, in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Junior Season

  • Hansbrough’s 22.8 ppg scoring average this season is the highest at UNC since since Charles Scott (27.1 ppg) in 1969-70.[14]
  • Averaged 28.0 points and 12.1 rebounds over seven games of Ty Lawson’s injury in February[15]
  • Tyler Hansbrough's 27 20-point games and 19 double-doubles this season lead the ACC. His 22.8 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.82 offensive rebounds, 6.45 defensive rebounds and 9.8 free throw attempts per contest also lead the conference. He is second in field goal percentage (.542)[16]
  • Hansbrough is the highest scoring junior in ACC history with 2,151 career points.[17]
  • On February 3, 2008 at Florida State, Hansbrough broke Lennie Rosenbluth’s 51-year-old school record for made free throws when he made one with 16:37 to play in regulation[18]
  • Hansbrough has scored 20 or more points in 27 games and 25 or more 16 times this season, most in the ACC. He has scored at least 20 in 13 of the last 17 games.[19]
  • Hansbrough has grabbed 10 or more rebounds in 19 games this season, most in the ACC. He has an ACC-leading 10 “20 & 10” games this seasonyear, seven more than any other player in the ACC.[20]
  • By scoring 39 points against Clemson (February 10, 2008), Tyler Hansbrough became one of only two Carolina players in the past 35 years to have at least three 35-point games as a Tar Heel. Antawn Jamison, who had four such games, is the other. Lennie Rosenbluth scored at least 35 points 13 times in his UNC career to lead that category[21]
  • Hansbrough’s 21-rebound game against Florida State (February 3, 2008) was just the sixth game of 21 rebounds or more by a Tar Heel in the past 35 years (Sean May had 24 against Duke in 2005, 21 against Akron and Duke during the 03-04 season, Mitch Kupchak grabbed 21 against Tulane in 1976, and Bobby Jones had 21 against Duke in 1973).[22]
  • He pulled down 52 rebounds in a three-game span from Feb. 3-10, the best three-game rebounding performance by a Tar Heel since 1968. He averaged 29.7 points and 17.3 rebounds in those three outings. For the season, he averages 10.7 rebounds per game. That is tied as the highest average by a Tar Heel since Mitch Kupchak averaged 11.3 rpg in 1975-76.[23]
  • Currently leads the team in steals with 57 and in charges drawn with 42.[24]
  • In the ACC semifinals on March 15, 2008 Hansbrough hit a baseline jump shot with 0.8 seconds remaining to give the Tar Heels a 68-66 victory over Virginia Tech. After Ty Lawson drove and missed a shot, Hansbrough took the rebound and scored for the win over the fourth-seeded Hokies. Carolina led Virginia Tech for just 1:29 of the 40-minute contest. [25]

All-Time Records

Atlantic Coast Conference

  • Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,151 points
  • Most Free Throw Attempts, Career: 941
  • Most Free Throws Made, Career: 728
  • Most ACC Rookie of the Week awards: 10 (2005-2006) - ties Kenny Anderson (Georgia Tech, 1989-90)[26]
  • Most Single-Season ACC Player of the Week awards: 8 (2007-08)
  • First Freshman to be a Unanimous All-ACC First Team Selection (2006)[27]
  • 1 of only 3 players in ACC history to be named unanimous first-team All-ACC three times (joining NC State’s David Thompson and Duke’s Art Heyman)[28]
  • #4 Freshman Per Game Scoring Average: 18.94 (2005-06)[29]
  • #5 Freshman Field Goal Percentage: 57.0 (2005-06)[30]
  • #5 Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 (2006-07)[31]
  • Tyler Hansbrough has earned the following honors in 2008: National Player of the Year, ACC Player of the Year, ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player and NCAA Tournament Regional MVP. Just three other players in ACC history have won all of the above honors in the same season: UNC’s Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Duke’s Christian Laettner (1992) and UNC’s Antawn Jamison (1998).

University of North Carolina

  • Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,151
  • Most Free Throws Attempted, Career: 939[32]
  • Most Free Throws Made, Career: 728[33]
  • Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in a single season: 385[34]
  • Most Free Throws Made, Single Season: 299
  • Reached 1,000 points in his 54th game, the fastest Tar Heel who played as a true freshman [35]
  • Most Points for a Freshman in an individual game: 40 against Georgia Tech, February 15, 2006.[36]
  • Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in an individual game: 40 against Georgia Tech, February 15, 2006[37]
  • Second-Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in an individual game: 39 against Clemson, February 10, 2008
  • Most Double-Figure Scoring Games, Single Season: 38
  • Highest Scoring Average in the Dean Smith Center in a single season: 24.1 points (2007-08)[38]
  • Most Free Throws Made in an individual game in the Dean Smith Center: 17 against Clemson, February 10, 2008[39]
  • Most Single-Season ACC Player of the Week awards: 8 (2007-08)[40]
  • 1 of only 2 Tar Heels (with Pete Brennan, All-America forward on 1957 national championship team) to score 1,000 points with more made free throws than field goals[41]
  • 1 of only 3 Tar Heels (with Rusty Clark and Billy Cunningham) to ever pull down 52 or more rebounds in three straight games[42]
  • Only Tar Heel to be named unanimous first-team All-ACC three times[43]
  • Fourth Tar Heel to be named ACC Player of the Year and Tournament MVP in the same season (with Lennie Rosenbluth 1957, Larry Miller 1967 and 1968, Antawn Jamison 1998)
  • Fifth Tar Heel (first since 1984) to be a three-time, first-team All-America (with Jack Cobb 1924-26, Phil Ford 1976-78, Mike O’Koren 1978-80 and Sam Perkins 1982-84)
  • #2 Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 points
  • Reached 2,000 points in his 100th career game at North Carolina, becoming the third-fastest Tar Heel to reach that milestone.[44]
  • #5 Freshman Field Goal Percentage: 57.0 (2005-06)[45]
  • #5 - 20 or more points in consecutive games: 9 (from Feb. 3 to March 4, 2008) - ties Michael Jordan (1983-84)
  • 6th 2,000-point scorer in UNC history
  • Highest Scoring Duo, Single Season: Tyler Hansbrough (865 points) and Wayne Ellington (629); 1,494 points combined (2007-2008)

Records climbing

As of March 31, 2008[46]

  • #2 ACC - Free Throws Made, Single Season: 299 (2007-08)
  • #2 UNC - Free Throws Attempted, Single Season: 371 (2007-08)
  • #2 UNC Scoring Trio, Single Season: Tyler Hansbrough (865 points), Wayne Ellington (629), and Danny Green (432); 1,926 points combined (2007-2008)
  • #2 UNC - Career Scoring: 2,151 points
  • #2 UNC - Single Season Scoring: 865 points (2007-08)
  • #2 UNC - Single Season Rebounds: 390 (2008)
  • #3 ACC - Single Season double-figure scoring games: 38
  • #5 ACC - Career Rebounding as a Junior: 934
  • #6 UNC - Career Scoring Average 20.1 points
  • #8 UNC - Career Rebounds: 934
  • #9 UNC Single-Season Scoring, Points Per Game: 22.8 (2008)
  • #4 ACC - Career ACC Player of the Week awards: 9 (one in 2005-06 and eight in 2007-08)

Poplar Bluff High School

  • Most total Points: 1,663
  • Most Points in a season: 689, in 2004
  • Most Rebounds in a game: 19, on two separate occasions

Awards

  • 2008 National Player of the Year (Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, ESPN.com, Adolph Rupp Award[47])
  • 2008 Unanimous First-team All-America (Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, USBWA, ESPN.com, FoxSports.com, Associated Press)
  • 2008 ACC Player of the Year (unanimous)[48]
  • 2008 All-ACC First Team Selection (unanimous)
  • 2008 Charlotte, North Carolina NCAA Regional MOP
  • 2008 ACC Tournament MVP
  • 2008 First-Team ACC All-Tournament Team
  • 2008 District Player of the Year (USBWA)
  • 2008 First-team All-District (NABC, USBWA)
  • 9-time ACC Player of the Week (Mar. 6, 2006 (co-winner); Nov. 26, Dec. 10, Dec. 24, Dec. 31 (co-winner), 2007; Feb. 4, Feb. 11, Feb. 25, Mar. 16, 2008)
  • 2007 Las Vegas Invitational MVP
  • 2008 Preseason ACC Player of the Year
  • 2008 Preseason First-Team All-ACC
  • 2007 NABC First Team All-American
  • 2007 Sporting News First Team All-American
  • 2007 AP Second Team All-American
  • Unanimous 2007 All-ACC First Team Selection
  • 2006 AP Third Team All-American
  • 2006 Rupp Award First Team All-American
  • Sporting News 2006 First Team All-American Selection
  • 2006 First Team ACC All-Tournament Team Selection
  • Unanimous 2006 ACC All-Freshman Team
  • Unanimous 2006 All-ACC First Team Selection (Hansbrough is the first freshman ever to earn this honor by a unanimous vote)
  • Unanimous 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year
  • 10 time ACC Rookie of the Week (ties Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech for most all time)
  • 2005 McDonald's All-American[49]
  • 2005 Parade All-American[50]
  • Poplar Bluff Showdown All-Tournament Team (2002-05)
  • SEMO All-Conference Team (2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05)
  • Missouri All-State Team (2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05)
Preceded by Atlantic Coast Conference
Freshman of the Year
2006 		Succeeded by

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