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When ranking on the levels of college greatness, you have to do exactly what it says, rank on the levels of college greatness. Ralph Sampson won 3 straight national POTY awards and 2 Wooden Awards, something that probably will never be repeated again...yet had an Injury plagued NBA career and amounted to little. Why does that make him less of a COLLEGE player?
Later on when Hansbrough is averaging his maximum of 8-10 ppg with 4-6 rpg off the bench, do his ACC and NCAA records disappear?
UNC ALL-TIME CAREER RECORDS
Points :………………………….. ..Final Rank #1
Rebounds :…………………………Final Rank #1
Combined Points & Rebounds :….Final Rank #1
Field Goals Made:……………….…Final Rank #1
Free Throws Made :……………….Final Rank #1
Free Throws Attempted :……….. .Final Rank #1
ACC ALL-TIME CAREER RECORDS
Points :………………………….. ..Final Rank #1
Rebounds :…………………………Final Rank #8
Combined Points & Rebounds :….Final Rank #2
Field Goals Made:……………….…Final Rank #2
Free Throws Made :……………….Final Rank #1
Free Throws Attempted :……….. .Final Rank #2
NCAA ALL-TIME CAREER RECORDS
Points :………………………….. ..Final Rank #12
Combined Points & Rebounds :….Final Rank #11
Free Throws Made :……………….Final Rank #1
Free Throws Attempted :……….. .Final Rank #2
ACC Player of the Week Honors:
Career:………………………….. ..Final Rank #4
Single season:……..………….. ..Final Rank #1
4-Time Consensus All-Americans
Tyler Hansbrough has become the first player ever with 3 consensus First-Team and 1 consensus Second-Team All-American honor. No one has ever had 4 consensus First-Team All-American honors, and only Arnold Ferrin of Utah has ever been on a consensus All-American team 4 times, though 3 of those were Second-Team honors.
-5th player in NCAA history with 2,800 points and 1,200 rebounds.
You can't look over all these things just because the same people who thought Kwame Brown, Darko Millicic, Nickoloz Tskitishvili, and Rafael Araujo would be great NBA players think that Hansbrough won't succeed. He's one of the most accomplished players of all time.
Looking at this list of accomplishments, i'd say he'd have to be one of the best NCAA players of all time. Espessually looking at those UNC stats were he out did the likes of Vince Carter, Michael Jordon, James Worthey, ect. He was always the hardest working player on the court giving it 110% every time he plays.
He was also quite a clutch player as well. Seriously, I don't know why people wouldn't call him one of the best.. Maybe because they think he won't be good in the NBA?
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