Tyler Hansbrough

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Tyler Hansbrough
Hansbrough practicing for a 2008 NCAA tournament game
Hansbrough practicing for a 2008 NCAA tournament game
College North Carolina
Conference ACC
Sport Basketball
Position Forward
Jersey # 50
Class Junior
Nickname Psycho-T
Career 2005 – present
Height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Weight 245 lb (111 kg)
Nationality USA
Born November 3, 1985 (1985-11-03) (age 22)
Columbia, Missouri
High school Poplar Bluff HS,
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Career highlights
Honors
2008 Wooden Award national player of the year
2008 Naismith Award national player of the year
2008 Associated Press national player of the year
2008 Sporting News national player of the year
2008 NABC national player of the year
2008 Sports Illustrated national player of the year
2008 ESPN.com national player of the year
2008 USBWA national player of the year
2008 Rupp Award national player of the year
2008 First Team All American
2008 ACC Tournament MVP
2008 ACC Player of the Year
2008 First-Team All ACC
2007 First Team All-American
2007 First-Team All ACC

2006 First Team All-American
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[1], 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year, and 2008 ACC Conference Player of the Year. In 2008, Hansbrough swept all major individual honors in men's college basketball. For a North Carolina men's player to have his jersey retired, he must win at least one of six national player of the year awards: The Associated Press, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Sporting News, the Naismith Award and the Wooden Award, and wait until his class has graduated. Since Hansbrough has won all six,[2] and is returning for his senior season, he will have his number 50 retired when he graduates from North Carolina in 2009. Hansbrough is the son of Tami Wheat and Dr. Gene Hansbrough and brother of former Mississippi State University player Ben Hansbrough.

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[edit] 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[3] and 2004-2005[4] seasons. In 2005, Hansbrough helped Poplar Bluff beat the then undefeated and number one team in the nation, Vashon High School.[5] 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[6].

[edit] Collegiate career

[edit] Freshman season

Tyler Hansbrough led the University of North Carolina in scoring with an average of 18.9 points per game.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] 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).[10]

[edit] Sophomore season

With the University of North Carolina signing what was often considered to be the best recruiting class in the country in 2006,[11] 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.[12] 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 2007 NCAA tournament.

[edit] Junior Season

  • Hansbrough’s 22.6 ppg scoring average his junior year is the highest at UNC since since Charles Scott (27.1 ppg) in 1969-70.[13]
  • Averaged 28.0 points and 12.1 rebounds over seven games of Ty Lawson’s injury in February[14]
  • Tyler Hansbrough's 27 20-point games and 19 double-doubles led the ACC. His 22.6 points, 10.2 rebounds, 3.87 offensive rebounds, 6.36 defensive rebounds and 9.8 free throw attempts per contest also led the conference. He was second in field goal percentage (.540)[15]
  • Hansbrough is the highest scoring junior in ACC history with 2,168 career points.[16]
  • 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[17]
  • Hansbrough has scored 20 or more points in 27 games and 25 or more 16 times his junior season, most in the ACC. He scored at least 20 in 13 of the last 18 games.[18]
  • Hansbrough \grabbed 10 or more rebounds in 19 games his junior season\, most in the ACC. He had ACC-leading 10 “20 & 10” games this seasonyear, seven more than any other player in the ACC.[19]
  • 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[20]
  • 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 2003-04 season, Mitch Kupchak grabbed 21 against Tulane in 1976, and Bobby Jones had 21 against Duke in 1973).[21]
  • 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.[22]
  • Led the team in steals with 59 and in charges drawn with 42* (*needs data for charges drawn in the Final Four game against Kansas.[23]
  • 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. [24]

[edit] Senior Season

On April 25, 2008 Tyler decided to stay at North Carolina for his senior season. [25]

[edit] All-Time Records

[edit] Atlantic Coast Conference

  • Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,168 points
  • Most Free Throw Attempts, Career: 945
  • Most Free Throws Made, Career: 733
  • Most Free Throws Made, Single Season: 304 (2007-08)
  • Most Double-figure Scoring Games, Single Season: 39 (2007-08)
  • 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 N.C. State’s David Thompson and Duke’s Art Heyman)[28]
  • #4 - Points and Rebounds Combined, Single Season: 1,281 (2007-08)
  • #4 Freshman Per Game Scoring Average: 18.94 (2005-06)[29]
  • #5 Freshman Field Goal Percentage: .570 (2005-06)[30]
  • #5 Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 (2006-07)[31]
  • #5 - Career Rebounding as a Junior: 943 (2005-08)
  • #6 - Scoring, Single Season: 882 points (2007-08)
  • #14 - Rebounds, Single Season: 399 points (2007-08)
  • 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).

[edit] University of North Carolina

  • Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,168
  • Most Points by Two Players, Single Season: Tyler Hansbrough (882) and Wayne Ellington (647); 1,529 combined (2007-08)
  • Most Points and Rebounds Combined, Single Season: 1,281 (2007-08)
  • Most Free Throws Attempted, Career: 945[32]
  • Most Free Throws Made, Career: 733[33]
  • Most Rebounds, Single Season: 399 (2007-08)
  • Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in a single season: 385[34]
  • Most Free Throws Attempted, Single Season: 377 (2007-08)
  • Most Free Throws Made, Single Season: 304
  • 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: 39
  • Highest Scoring Average in the Dean Smith Center in a single season: 24.1 points (2007-08)[38]
  • Highest Scoring Average as a Freshman: 18.9 points (2005-06)[39]
  • Most Free Throws Made in an individual game in the Dean Smith Center: 17 against Clemson, February 10, 2008[40]
  • Most Steals in the Dean Smith Center in an individual game: 8 against UNC-Asheville, December 28, 2005
  • Most Single-Season ACC Player of the Week awards: 8 (2007-08)[41]
  • Only Tar Heel to be named unanimous first-team All-ACC three times[42]
  • 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[43]
  • 1 of only 3 Tar Heels (with Rusty Clark and Billy Cunningham) to ever pull down 52 or more rebounds in three straight games[44]
  • 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)
  • Sixth 2,000-point scorer in UNC history
  • #2 UNC Scoring Trio, Single Season: Tyler Hansbrough (882 points), Wayne Ellington (647), and Danny Green (447); 1,976 points combined (2007-08)
  • #2 - Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 points
  • #2 - Single Season Scoring: 882 points (2007-08)
  • #2 - Most Steals in an individual game: 8
  • #3 - Highest Scoring Average as a Freshman: 587 (2005-06)
  • #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)
  • #9 - Single-Season Scoring, Points Per Game: 22.8 (2008)
  • Reached 2,000 points in his 100th career game at North Carolina, becoming the third-fastest Tar Heel to reach that milestone.[46]

[edit] Records climbing

As of April 6th, 2008[47]

  • #2 UNC - Career Scoring: 2,168 points (2005-08)
  • Record: 2,290 points by Phil Ford (1974-78)
  • #2 UNC - Most Points and Rebounds Combined, Career: 3,111 (2005-08)
  • #4 ACC - Career ACC Player of the Week awards: 9 (one in 2005-06 and eight in 2007-08)
  • #6 UNC - Career Scoring Average: 20.1 points (2005-08)
  • #8 UNC - Career Rebounds: 934 (2005-08)
  • #14 ACC - Points and Rebounds Combined, Career: 3,111 (2005-08)
  • #17 ACC - Career Scoring: 2,168 points (2005-08)
  • #33 ACC - Career Rebounds: 934 (2005-08)

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards

  • 2008 National Player of the Year (Naismith Award, Associated Press, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com, Adolph Rupp Trophy, Oscar Robertson Trophy, John R. Wooden Award)[48][49]
  • 2008 Unanimous First-team All-America (Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, USBWA, ESPN.com, Basketball Times, FoxSports.com, Associated Press)
  • 2008 ACC Player of the Year (unanimous)[50]
  • 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
  • 2007 All-ACC First Team Selection (unanimous)
  • 2006 First-team All-America (Sporting News, Rupp)
  • 2006 Third-team All-America (AP, NABC, Basketball Times)
  • 2006 National Freshman of the Year (ESPN.com, SI.com, Sporting News, USBWA, Basketball Times)
  • 2006 First-team All-ACC (unanimous) (Hansbrough is the first freshman ever to earn this honor by a unanimous vote)
  • 2006 ACC Rookie of the Year (unanimous)
  • 2006 ACC All-Freshman Team (unanimous)
  • 2006 All-ACC Tournament first-team
  • 2006 Wooden Award Finalist (one of 22)
  • 2006 Rupp Award Finalist
  • 2006 USBWA All-District Team
  • 2006 NABC All-District Team
  • 2006 10-time ACC Freshman of the Week (ties Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech for most all time)
  • 2005 McDonald's All-American[51]
  • 2005 Parade All-American[52]
  • 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
Marvin Williams		 Atlantic Coast Conference
Freshman of the Year
2006		 Succeeded by
Brandan Wright
Awards
Preceded by
Kevin Durant		 Naismith College Player of the Year
2008		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Kevin Durant		 Oscar Robertson Trophy
2008		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Kevin Durant		 Adolph Rupp Trophy
2008		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Kevin Durant		 John R. Wooden Award
2008		 Succeeded by
Incumbent

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