Tyler Hansbrough
Tyler Hansbrough
Andrew Tyler Hansbroughis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Hansbrough played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team where he was a unanimous selection for the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team, 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year, and 2008 ACC Player of the Year. He is the ACC's all-time leading scorer, and he won the Wooden Award and earned...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 November 1985
CityColumbia, MO
Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.
There's going to be days like that, where the ball just doesn't go in the hole.
I think I could have learned a lot from Sean. He would have been a senior and he would have been a veteran to learn from. I could have gotten tips from him and learned a lot.
When I knocked down those free throws, it hit me that we'd just come in here and beat Duke. It doesn't get any better than this.
I don't think anybody expected us to do much this year. That's something that drove us to do a lot more. We came out, we concentrated real hard and we got a 'W.
I expected to play well, but it's kind of shocking that I'm playing this well. I never expected, as a young guy, to come into the Dean Dome and drop 40.
I didn't have any individual goals, but I would say it's a good accomplishment. I thought there were some things that I struggled with at the beginning. I tried to improve on those. With this team, I got a lot of experience early, and I think I adjusted well.
We thought that if we could beat Arizona, we could pretty much beat anybody. I was really pumped up.
It's not something we've talked about, you know.
I've got a lot of other stuff to focus on; I'm not even thinking about that.
It was partly my fault. My movement wasn't as it should have been.
It's something that's special to me. It will be something that I talk about later down the road. I think it's probably one of my best individual performances. I haven't played against the level of competition that I've in college. In high school I didn't see players who were 6-9.
It showed a lot for us. We were down 17, came back, made a big run and got right back in it. It shows what type of team we can be.
It's a small community. Everybody knows each other.