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UNC Basketball: Top 5 UNC centers of all time

By Horran Cameron

Oct 23, 2015; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Former North Carolina Tar Heel players Brendan Haywood (left) and Kenny Smith (right) with head coach Roy Williams during Late Night with Roy Williams at Smith Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 23, 2015; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Former North Carolina Tar Heel players Brendan Haywood (left) and Kenny Smith (right) with head coach Roy Williams during Late Night with Roy Williams at Smith Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /
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#2 Brad Daugherty, UNC (1982-1986)

Brad Daugherty was a dominant force in the early to mid-1980s. He attended the University of North Carolina at the age of 16. By the time he graduated from UNC, he was a 20-year-old who was the number one pick in the 1986 NBA Draft.

Here is a list of Daugherty’s achievements at UNC. He ranks:

  • ninth in scoring all-time (1,912 points)
  • third-highest UNC career field goal percentage (62%; 760 out of 1,226 field goals)
  • eighth-most field goals made during UNC career (760)
  • ninth-most rebounds during a single season (349)
  • eighth-most rebounds in UNC career (1,003)

Daugherty was a two-time All-ACC first team member in 1985 and 1986. In 1986, Daugherty was a consensus second team All-American (Associated Press, NABC and UPI). He was a first team USBWA All-American.

He is a member of the ACC 50th Anniversary team as one of the fifty greatest players in the ACC conference. In addition to that, he was inducted into North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.

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