Barry Jacobs: Hansbrough a welcome throwback

Posted Dec 18, 2008
Tim Duncan finished college [at Wake Forest] in 1997, and before long commentators sagely pronounced dead the era of four-year stardom in college basketball. But Andrew Tyler Hansbrough proved the experts wrong, as demonstrated by the near-certainty he will break Phil Ford’s UNC career scoring record in his 114th collegiate game, against Evansville at the Smith Center on Thursday night. (WRAL Sports Fan)

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