5. Tyler Hansbrough- Hansbrough made the North Carolina record book his own personal stats guide while he was a Tarheel leaving as the all time leading scorer and rebounder and he set numerous ACC and NCAA records as well. Hansbrough earned the nickname "Psycho T" while at North Carolina and he had a will to win that was second only to Michael Jordan in Tarheel lore. The most impressive stat for Tyler Hansbrough was that he never lost to Duke and going undefeated at Cameron Indoor Stadium was a feat that had never been accomplished by a Tarheel before. I don't remember where the Tarheels were playing but someone in the stands had held up a poster comparing Hansbrough to the Muppets character Beaker. He was a monster on the glass and if the officials would have called all of the fouls that were actually committed against him, he would probably still be at the free throw line. His records at North Carolina will never be broken.
6. Shammond Williams- Williams was one of those players that occasionally comes to Chapel Hill that did not get a lot of national attention as a high school player while he was playing in Greenville, SC but Dean Smith saw some potential there and thought he could contribute by the time he left North Carolina. Williams did not even average two points a game his freshman season but he left with the Tarheel record for three pointers made (a record just recently broken by Marcus Paige) and a career three point percentage of just over 40 percent. My favorite game of Williams had to be his 42 points against Georgia Tech in double overtime. He his eight of eleven three pointers in the Tarheels 107-100 win and just completely took the game over.
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