University of North Carolina Athletics
Sports Illustrated Names Hansbrough National Player Of The Year
March 4, 2008 | Men's Basketball
March 4, 2008
CHAPEL HILL - Sports Illustrated has named North Carolina's junior forward Tyler Hansbrough as the 2008 National Men's Collegiate Basketball Player of the Year in a cover story in the magazine's issue that hit the newsstands today.
Hansbrough leads the No. 1 ranked Tar Heels (27-2 overall, 12-2 ACC) against Florida State tonight at 8 p.m. in Carolina's final home game of the season.
The Poplar Bluff, Mo., native leads the ACC in both scoring (23.4 ppg) and rebounding (10.4 rpg) and is eighth nationally in points per game. Hansbrough has won ACC Player of the Week honors seven times this season, tying the single-season record with UNC's Antawn Jamison (in 1997-98) and Duke's JJ Redick (in 2005-06).
Hansbrough is the 10th Tar Heel men's basketball player to earn National Player of the Year honors and the second to earn Sports Illustrated's Player of the Year award (with Jerry Stackhouse in 1994-95).
To read Sports Illustrated's cover story on Hansbrough, click here.
Carolina's National Players of the Year
Jack Cobb - 1926
George Glamack - 1940 and 1941
Lennie Rosenbluth - 1957
Phil Ford - 1978
James Worthy - 1982
Michael Jordan - 1983 and 1984
Kenny Smith - 1987
Jerry Stackhouse - 1995
Antawn Jamison - 1998
Tyler Hansbrough - 2008
