Andrew Tyler Hansbrough (born November 3, 1985) is an American basketball player for the Indiana Pacers. Hansbrough completed a college basketball career with the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team in 2009, and was drafted into the NBA by the Indiana Pacers with the 13th pick of the 1st round of the 2009 NBA Draft. Hansbrough was a unanimous selection for the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team,[1] 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year, and 2008 ACC Player of the Year. He is the ACC's all-time leading scorer. In 2008, he won the Wooden Award and was the National Player of the Year. His jersey (number 50) was retired on February 10, 2010 during a Duke-North Carolina rivalry game.
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[2] and 2004–2005[3] seasons. In 2005, Hansbrough helped Poplar Bluff beat the then undefeated and number one team in the nation, Vashon High School.[4] 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 Lawrence North High School team out of Indianapolis, IN. Hansbrough accepted an offer to play basketball for North Carolina, turning down scholarship offers to play at Duke, Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky.[5]
Tyler Hansbrough led the University of North Carolina men's basketball team in scoring with an average of 18.9 points per game.[6] Additionally, Hansbrough was unanimously selected as the 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year and was also a unanimous selection to the 2006 All ACC 1st Team. This marked the first time that a freshman had ever been unanimously given 1st team All-ACC honors.[7] He was second to J. J. 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.[8] 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).[9]
With the University of North Carolina signing what was often considered to be the best recruiting class in the country in 2006,[10] 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. hit Hansbrough with his right elbow, breaking Hansbrough's nose.[11] 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.
- Hansbrough’s 22.6 ppg scoring average his junior year is the highest at UNC since Charlie Scott (27.1 ppg) in 1969–70.[12]
- In February while Ty Lawson was injured, Hansbrough averaged 28.0 points and 12.1 rebounds over seven games.[13]
- 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)[14]
- Hansbrough is the highest scoring junior in ACC history with 2,168 career points.[13]
- 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[15]
- Hansbrough has scored 20 or more points in 27 games and 25 or more 16 times his junior season, most in the ACC.
- 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.[14]
- 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[15]
- 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).[15]
- 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 averaged 10.7 rebounds per game. That is tied for the highest average by a Tar Heel since Mitch Kupchak averaged 11.3 rpg in 1975–-76.[15]
- 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.[14]
- 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.[16]
Tyler Hansbrough being congratulated after setting the new school scoring record
- On April 25, 2008 North Carolina announced that Hansbrough would return for his senior season.[17]
- Tyler Hansbrough made his third straight Associated Press' preseason All-America based on a unanimous selection.
- Tyler was also the unanimous choice as ACC preseason player of the year.
- On October 30, 2008, Tyler was diagnosed with a stress reaction in his right shin, then turned his left ankle while driving to the basket just minutes into his first game of the year at UC Santa Barbara. He missed four games, the first he has missed as a Tar Heel.
- On December 18, 2008, in a home game in Chapel Hill against the University of Evansville, Hansbrough broke North Carolina's all-time career scoring record, surpassing Phil Ford's total of 2,290 points. That is just the second time in 52 years the UNC record has been broken.
- Hansbrough grabbed his 1,000th career rebound on December 28 versus Rutgers and is one of seven Carolina players to record 1,000 rebounds in a career.
- Had a 55-game double figure streak that was the second-longest in UNC history and equaled the 11th-longest in ACC history (ended at Florida State on Jan. 28).
- With his 24 points against Maryland on February 3, 2009, Hansbrough set two records:
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- Most 20-point games in ACC history (Duke's J.J. Redick had 70) and
- Most games in double figures by a Tar Heel (Sam Perkins had 118)
- After the win at Duke on February 11, 2009, seniors Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough are the only two Tar Heels to play in four wins at Duke since Mike Krzyzewski took over as the Blue Devils head coach. Fellow seniors Mike Copeland, Bobby Frasor and Marcus Ginyard have been a part of teams that won at Duke in the last four meetings in Durham, but they did not play in all four victories.
- On February 18, 2009, vs. NC State, Hansbrough broke Phil Ford’s record of made field goals to move into first for UNC's field goals made in a career
- On February 28, 2009, vs. Georgia Tech, Hansbrough set a new NCAA record for most free throws made in a career. He went 8 for 8 at the line against the Yellow Jackets to complete 907 career free throws made. Dickie Hemric of Wake Forest held the previous record with 905, a record that stood for 54 years.
- Leading the ACC in scoring for the second consecutive season
- His 22 points at Virginia Tech gave him 2,302 points in 112 wins as a Tar Heel. That is more points than Phil Ford, Carolina’s No. 2 all-time scorer, had in his entire career (2,290)
- Became the first player in ACC history to earn first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in each of his four seasons
- Voted by the coaches to the NABC District first team (with Ty Lawson)
- One of only three ACC players (with Ty Lawson and Jeff Teague) to be a USBWA Player of the Year finalist and on the Naismith and Wooden mid-season lists.
- The first player in ACC history to lead his school in both scoring and rebounding in each of his four seasons
- Became the fifth player in ACC history to lead his school in scoring in four straight seasons (with Virginia’s Jeff Lamp 1978–81, Georgia Tech’s Mark Price 1983–86, Duke’s Johnny Dawkins 1983–86 and Clemson’s Greg Buckner 1995–98).
- Has 44 career double-doubles, 25 more than any active ACC player
- Leads the ACC in scoring at 21.1 points a game
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- 4th in free throw percentage
- 6th in offensive rebounds
- 6th in field goal percentage
- 7th in rebounding.
- Made a career-best 28 straight free throws earlier in the year and is shooting a career-best 84.9 percent from the free throw line (186 for 219)
- Finished tied for second behind Oklahoma's Blake Griffin for the 2009 AP Player of the Year Award.
Hansbrough was drafted 13th overall by the Indiana Pacers in the 2009 NBA Draft. His rookie season was cut short due to a series of inner ear problems.[18] On March 15th, 2011, Hansbrough scored a career high 30 points against the New York Knicks.
| Year |
Team |
GP |
GS |
MPG |
FG% |
3P% |
FT% |
RPG |
APG |
SPG |
BPG |
PPG |
| 2009–10 |
Indiana |
29 |
1 |
17.6 |
.360 |
.000 |
.743 |
4.8 |
1.0 |
.6 |
.3 |
8.5 |
| 2010–11 |
Indiana |
70 |
29 |
21.9 |
.470 |
.000 |
.779 |
5.2 |
.6 |
.6 |
.2 |
11.0 |
| 2011-12 |
Indiana |
66 |
0 |
21.8 |
.405 |
.000 |
.813 |
4.4 |
.5 |
.8 |
.1 |
9.3 |
| Career |
165 |
30 |
21.1 |
.425 |
.000 |
.787 |
4.8 |
.6 |
.6 |
.2 |
9.9 |
| Year |
Team |
GP |
GS |
MPG |
FG% |
3P% |
FT% |
RPG |
APG |
SPG |
BPG |
PPG |
| 2010–11 |
Indiana |
5 |
5 |
32.8 |
.333 |
.000 |
.889 |
5.4 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
.0 |
11.2 |
| 2011–12 |
Indiana |
11 |
0 |
14.9 |
.340 |
.000 |
.667 |
3.2 |
.5 |
.4 |
.3 |
4.4 |
| Career |
16 |
5 |
20.5 |
.336 |
.000 |
.769 |
3.9 |
.7 |
.7 |
.2 |
6.5 |
Tyler Hansbrough walking back to the players' tunnel after his jersey retirement ceremony on February 10, 2010.
In 2008, Hansbrough swept all major individual honors in men's college basketball. For a North Carolina men's player to be eligible 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 won all six,[19] he had his number 50 retired during half time against Duke held February 10, 2010.
Hansbrough is the son of Tami Wheat and Dr. Gene Hansbrough and brother of former Notre Dame guard Ben Hansbrough and marathon runner Greg Hansbrough.
- Just the second player in ACC history to play four seasons and average better than 20 points (Rodney Monroe of NC State is the only player to previously accomplish that)
- Third straight year he has improved his free throw accuracy (73.9%, 76.8%, 80.6%, 84.9%).
- Most Free Throws Made, Career: 968 (2005–09)
- Most Career Points: 2,872 (2005–09)
- Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,168 (2005–08)
- Most Free Throws Made, Career: 982 (2005–09)
- Most Free Throws Made, Single Season: 304 (2007–08)
- Most Career 20-point games: 78 (2005–09)
- Most Double-figure Scoring Games, Single Season: 39 (2007–08)
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- Most ACC Rookie of the Week awards: 10 (2005–2006) – ties Kenny Anderson (Georgia Tech, 1989–90)[20]
- Most Single-Season ACC Player of the Week awards: 8 (2007–08)
- First Freshman to be a Unanimous All-ACC First Team Selection (2006)[20]
- First player in ACC history to be unanimously selected four times to the ACC All-Conference Team
- 1 of only 4 players (with Danny Green and Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Rusty LaRue) to beat Mike Krzyzewski-coached teams four times at Cameron Indoor Stadium
- Only player in ACC history to be named unanimous first-team All-ACC four times [21]
- 1 of only 8 players in ACC history to compile 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds
- joining Len Chappell and Tim Duncan (Wake Forest); Danny Ferry, Mike Gminski, and Christian Laettner, (Duke); Sam Perkins (UNC); and Ralph Sampson (Virginia)
- #4 – Career ACC Player of the Week awards: 10 (one in 2005–06, eight in 2007–08 and one in 2008–09)
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- #4 – Points and Rebounds Combined, Single Season: 1,281 (2007–08)
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- #4 – Freshman Per Game Scoring Average: 18.94 (2005–06)[20]
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- #5 – Freshman Field Goal Percentage: .570 (2005–06)[20]
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- #5 – Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 (2006–07)[20]
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- #5 – Career Rebounding as a Junior: 943 (2005–08)
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- #6 – Scoring, Single Season: 882 points (2007–08)
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- #11 (Tied) – Consecutive Double-Figure Games: 55
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- #14 – Rebounds, Single Season: 399 (2007–08)
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- 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).
As of May 28, 2009[22]
- Most Career Points 2,872 (2005–09)
- Most Career Rebounds 1,219 (2005–09)
- Most Points and Rebounds Combined, Career: 4,091
- Most Career Points as a Junior: 2,168 (2005–08)
- 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: 1,241
- Most Free Throws Made, Career: 982
- Most Field Goals Made, Career: 939
- Most Rebounds, Single Season: 399 (2007–08)
- Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in a single season: 385[21]
- Most Free Throws Attempted, Single Season: 377 (2007–08)
- Most Free Throws Made, Single Season: 304 (2007–08)
- Most Career Double-Figure Scoring Games: 126 (2005–09)
- Most Career 20-point games: 78 (2005–09)
- Reached 1,000 points in his 54th game, the fastest Tar Heel who played as a true freshman [23]
- Most Points for a Freshman in an individual game: 40 against Georgia Tech, February 15, 2006.[24]
- Most Points by a Tar Heel in the Dean Smith Center in an individual game: 40 against Georgia Tech, February 15, 2006[15]
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- 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)[12]
- Highest Scoring Average as a Freshman: 18.9 points (2005–06)[25]
- Most Free Throws Made in an individual game in the Dean Smith Center: 17 against Clemson, February 10, 2008[15]
- Most Steals in the Dean Smith Center in an individual game: 8 against UNC-Asheville, December 28, 2005
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- Most Single-Season ACC Player of the Week awards: 8 (2007–08)[26]
- First and only Tar Heel to be named unanimous first-team All-ACC four times[21]
- Second 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[27]
- 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
- Seventh UNC player to record 1,000 career rebounds
- #2 – UNC Scoring Trio, Single Season: Tyler Hansbrough (882 points), Wayne Ellington (647), and Danny Green (447); 1,976 points combined (2007–08)
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- #2 – Career Scoring as a Sophomore: 1,286 points
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- #2 – Single Season Scoring: 882 points (2007–08)
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- #2 – Consecutive Double-Figure Games: 55
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- #2 – Most Steals in an individual game: 8
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- #3 – Highest Scoring Average as a Freshman: 587 (2005–06)
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- #5 – Freshman Field Goal Percentage: 57.0 (2005–06)[20]
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- #5 – 20 or more points in consecutive games: 9 (twice) (from Feb. 3 to March 4, 2008 and from Nov. 26, 2008 to Jan. 7, 2009) – ties Michael Jordan (1983–84)
- #6 – Single-Season Double-Doubles (Points and Rebounds): 19
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- #9 – Single-Season Scoring, Points Per Game: 22.6 (2008)
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- Reached 2,000 points in his 100th career game at North Carolina, becoming the third-fastest Tar Heel to reach that milestone.[28]
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- Most total Points: 1,663
- Most Points in a season: 689, in 2004
- Most Rebounds in a game: 19, on two separate occasions
- 2009 Sporting News College Basketball Athlete of the Decade
- 2009 Consensus First-team All-America (Sports Illustrated, Sporting News, USBWA, ESPN.com, Associated Press)
- 2009 All-ACC First Team Selection (unanimous)
- 2009 NCAA All-Tournament Team
- 2009 First-team All-District (NABC, USBWA)
- 2008 ACC Male Athlete of the Year (Kevlin Award)
- 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)[29][30]
- 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)[31]
- 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× 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× ACC Freshman of the Week (ties Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech for most all time)
- 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)
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