CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2013 A pair of former Tar Heel standouts \u2013 men’s basketball forward Tyler Hansbrough and men’s soccer defender Eddie Pope \u2013 are two of 11 newly elected members of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
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\nThey will be inducted on May 1, 2026, in Greensboro. Ticket information for the ceremony will be announced at a later date.
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\nHansbrough and Pope are members of the NCSHOF Class of 2026 with Chip Beck (golf), Heather Bergsma (speed skating), Louis Breeden (football), Leonard Hamilton (college basketball coach), Richard Huntley (football), John Isner (tennis), Norvell Lee (high school & college basketball coach), Kelvin Sampson (college basketball coach) and Jerry Winterton (high school wrestling coach).
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\nHansbrough, already a member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, was the 2008 National and Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, led UNC to the 2009 NCAA championship, is the ACC’s all-time leading scorer and the only four-time first-team All-America and All-ACC player in league history.
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\nHe scored 2,872 points in leading the Tar Heels to a 120-22 record from 2005-09. He is Carolina’s all-time leading scorer in NCAA Tournament play, where he ranks fourth in scoring behind only Christian Laettner, Elvin Hayes and Danny Manning.
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\nA native of Poplar Bluff, Mo., who has resided in Chapel Hill for 20 years, Hansbrough became the first college basketball player to earn first-team All-America honors in each of his four seasons since the 1940s.
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\nPope is one of the most honored men’s soccer players in the United States. A native of High Point, where he attended SW Guilford High School, Pope played for the Tar Heels from 1992-95 before embarking on a 12-year career in Major League Soccer.
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\nPope played in 82 games over 11 years with the United States Men’s National Team, including the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, where he started all five games for the USMNT.
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\nPope was a two-time first-team All-ACC selection (1994, 1995), earned first-team All-America honors in 1994 and was named one of the top 50 players in ACC history. He was the No. 2 pick in the 1996 MLS Draft.
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\nPope was a five-time MLS all-star, earned MLS Best 11 honors four times and was selected to the MLS All-Time Best 11 team. He scored the game-winning goal for D.C. United four minutes into overtime in the first MLS Cup in 1997, helped DC United win the CONCACAF Champions Cup and InterAmerican Cup in 1998, when he scored in both finals, won a CONCACAF Gold Cup and won MLS Defensive Player-of-the-Year honors in 1997.
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\nHansbrough was elected to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot, while Pope was elected in his second year.
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\nThey are the 68th\u00a0and 69th\u00a0former Tar Heel players, coaches and staff elected to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
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\nHansbrough is the 20th\u00a0UNC men’s basketball player or coach selected to the NCSHOF, while Pope is the second men’s soccer player elected.
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UNC MEMBERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
\nBaseball:\u00a0Scott Bankhead, Mike Fox, Bunn Hearn, Clyde King, Walter Rabb, Danny Talbott, Burgess Whitehead
\nMen’s Basketball:\u00a0Pete Brennan, Jack Cobb, Brad Daugherty, Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Bill Guthridge, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Bobby Jones, Michael Jordan, Bob McAdoo, Monk McDonald, Bones McKinney, Julius Peppers, Lennie Rosenbluth, Lee Shaffer, Dean Smith, Jerry Stackhouse, Roy Williams, James Worthy
\nWomen’s Basketball:\u00a0Sylvia Hatchell, Charlotte Smith
\nField Hockey:\u00a0Karen Shelton
\nFootball:\u00a0George Barclay, Rod Broadway, Jason Brown, Mack Brown, Kelvin Bryant, Bill Dooley, Greg Ellis, Lee Gliarmis Sr., Dee Hardison, Ken Huff, Charlie Justice, Don McCauley, Paul Miller, Julius Peppers, Ed Sutton, Art Weiner, John Swofford, Danny Talbott
\nMen’s Golf:\u00a0Chuck Erickson, Raymond Floyd, Davis Love III, Harvie Ward
\nWomen’s Golf:\u00a0Donna Andrews, Page Marsh
\nMen’s Soccer:\u00a0Lee Gliarmis Sr., Eddie Pope
\nWomen’s Soccer:\u00a0Anson Dorrance, Carla (Werden) Overbeck
\nWomen’s Swimming:\u00a0Sue Walsh
\nMen’s Tennis:\u00a0Marshall Happer, Allen Morris, Don Skakle
\nWomen’s Tennis:\u00a0Laura Dupont
\nMen’s Track and Field\/Cross Country:\u00a0Jim Beatty, Dennis Craddock, Bob Fetzer, Floyd Simmons, Tony Waldrop, Harry Williamson
\nWomen’s Track and Field\/Cross Country:\u00a0Dennis Craddock
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\nRadio:\u00a0Woody Durham
\nSports Information:\u00a0Bob Quincy, Jake Wade
\nMedia Alumni:\u00a0Smith Barrier, Furman Bisher, Hugh Morton, Lenox Rawlings, Irwin Smallwood
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