Tyler Hansbrough Becomes North Carolina Basketball's All-Time Leading Scorer

Tonight "Psycho T," Tyler Hansbrough, etched his name into quite a prestigious record book. He is now the all-time leading scorer in the history of the illustrious North Carolina basketball program. A program which housed the likes of Micheal Jordan, Vince Carter, Walter Davis, and James Worthy now sees the 6'9" star senior sitting atop the list when it comes to career points.

Hansbrough surpassed Phil Ford tonight with 7:41 left in the first half during a blowout victory over Evansville.

He entered the season 11th on the all-time list, but has surpassed each of the ten men who once stood in his way with relative ease. Some household names on that list of ten were Davis, Antawn Jamison, Brad Daugherty, Sam Perkins, and Ford. This record had stood since 1978.

Next on the list for Hansbrough should be J.J. Redick's all-time ACC scoring record. Redick compiled 2769 career points. Hansbrough currently has 2301 points. If you figure the Tar Heels have 26 games left -- probably a conservative, if realistic, estimate considering their lofty expectations in the ACC and NCAA tourneys -- Hansbrough will have to average 18 points per game to tie Redick. He's currently averaging 22.8 a game this year and averaged 22.6 last year.

Looks like you, J.J., are next.