Former UNC standouts Tyler Hansbrough and Eddie Pope are half of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026, the Hall introduced Monday. Hansbrough, Pope and 9 different honorees might be inducted May 1 in Greensboro.
The honor is simply one other on a protracted checklist for Hansbrough, who’s already a member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame. A four-time first workforce All-American and the 2008 National Player of the Year, Hansbrough helped lead the UNC males’s basketball program on a dominant four-year run which culminated within the 2009 nationwide championship. During Hansbrough’s enjoying profession, the Tar Heels went 120-22.
Hansbrough’s 2,872 profession factors are each the UNC program file and the ACC file. He is the one participant within the historical past of the league to earn 4 first workforce All-ACC and All-America honors. Hansbrough additionally ranks fourth all-time in factors scored within the NCAA Tournament. Since retiring from basketball, Hansbrough has resided in Chapel Hill and infrequently appeared on the Tar Heel Sports Network throughout males’s basketball broadcasts. He additionally teaches a category in UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Pope was a adorned participant each for the UNC males’s soccer program and the United States Men’s National Team. The High Point native performed for the Tar Heels from 1992-95, was named first workforce All-ACC twice, first workforce All-America in 1994 and was chosen with the No. 2 general choose within the 1996 Major League Soccer Draft. Pope was later named one of the 50 finest gamers in ACC historical past.
As knowledgeable, Pope earned 5 MLS all-star alternatives, gained MLS Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1997 and was named to the MLS All-Time Best XI workforce. He scored the MLS Cup-winning objective for D.C. United in 1997, then helped the membership win the CONCACAF Champions Cup and InterAmerican Cup in 1998, scoring in each finals.
Pope appeared in 82 video games throughout 11 years with the USMNT. He represented his nation on the 1996 Olympic Games and on the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the place the United States reached the quarterfinals. Pope began all 5 of the workforce’s video games.
Pope and Hansbrough are the 68th and 69th former Tar Heel gamers, coaches or workers elected to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Hansbrough is the twentieth males’s basketball alumnus to be enshrined, whereas Pope joins Lee Gliarmis, Sr. as the one different males’s soccer alumnus honored.
Among the 9 different members of the Hall’s Class of 2026 are Houston males’s basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson (a Pembroke, N.C. native), former Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton (Gastonia) and retired tennis star John Isner (Greensboro).
Featured picture through UNC-Chapel Hill/Jon Gardiner
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