It's written in the University of North Carolina's bylaws, leaving no room for interpretation as to whether a player deserves to have a jersey number retired.
If a Tar Heel athlete is named national player of the year, he or she can have the jersey hang from the rafters.
There you go, Tyler Hansbrough. Your number 50 rightfully deserves to be hanging with the likes of Michael Jordan, Phil Ford, James Worthy and Antawn Jamison.
Hansbrough, who led the Tar Heels to both the ACC regular-season and tournament titles, was the Home News Tribune's choice Sunday for Associated Press Player of the Year honors, beating out UCLA's Kevin Love and Kansas State's Michael Beasley on our ballot.
The 6-foot-9 forward, the Atlantic Coast Conference's Player of the Year, already has been named national player of the year by six major publications, including Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News.
His statistics (23.1 ppg., 10.5 rpg.) are worthy enough, but watch the way Tyler Hansbrough dives for loose balls, scraps for rebounds and defends the paint and you'd think he was just an ordinary walk-on trying to make the team.
His game is rarely pretty, but package his toughness, savvy and brute strength and it adds up to finesse. There's a reason North Carolina fans affectionately call him "Psycho T."
It's the same reason he's most deserving of National Player of the Year.
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