The win over Hawai’i in the middle of the night for those on the East Coast meant much more to the 18 points the fifth-year season guard RJ Davis, the reigning ACC Player of the Year than most as he surpassed Sam Perkins on the all-team leading scoring sheet for UNC basketball.
He went into the game just four points away, sitting at No. 5. He had 18 points in the win, shooting 6-for-14 from the floor and 2-for-6 from behind the arc.
RJ Davis, now No. 4 on the list, is 131 points behind the No. 3 Phil Ford. Ford played for North Carolina from 1974-1978 and played 123 games, averaging a career 18.6 points per game.
A former teammate of RJ Davis, Armando Bacot, is the No. 2 player on the list with 2,347 points, just 188 more points than Davis. Bacot played with UNC for the last five years and averaged a career 13.9 points per game.
The top player on the list, who Bacot was also chasing, is UNC basketball legend Tyler Hansbrough. The center played for the Tar Heels from 2005-2009, winning a national championship in his last season.
He averaged a career of 20.2 points per game with 8.6 rebounds per game and was a four-time All-American. Davis sits 713 points behind Hansbrough’s 2,872 points that stand in first.
Last season, Davis scored 784 points, which if duplicated this season, would put Davis as the all-time leading scorer in North Carolina history at the end of the season.
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