ACC scoring record gets no mention on biggest stage
Mar 14, 2009
Tags: ACC
Somehow the ACC's most prestigious record, the all-time scoring mark, got not one mention during the semi-final game between Florida State and North Carolina. How could this possibly happen?
Hansbrough came into the tournament needing only 52 points to tie and 53 to break J.J. Redick's mark. Hansbrough scored 28 on Friday against Virginia Tech, so it had to be on everyone in Atlanta's radar that with another great performance he could break the mark on the conference's grandest stage.
Someone with the ACC should have walked right down to the court and pulled Tim Brandt's headphones off his head and told him to wake up. It isn't like this is a record that just comes around once every few years or so. Mike Gminski is normally right on top of his history, but let's be honest the conference completely dropped the ball here.
Love him or hate him, Hansbrough is the most talked about player in the conference, and his chase of the scoring record has been extremely well documented. It's not like anybody was having to guess where Hansbrough stood. To make matters worse Hansbrough played the final 5:13 of the game only a bucket away from the magic number.
Give Florida State all the credit for holding Tyler scoreless the final five minutes of the game, and saving the ACC and their TV crew the embarassment of losing track of possibly Hansbrough's biggest individual basketball accomplishment.
