{"id":815048,"date":"2024-12-27T01:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/rj-davis-close-to-jump-on-all-time-unc-basketball-scoring-list\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:19:29","slug":"rj-davis-close-to-jump-on-all-time-unc-basketball-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/rj-davis-close-to-jump-on-all-time-unc-basketball-scoring-list\/","title":{"rendered":"RJ Davis Close to Jump on All-Time UNC Basketball Scoring List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_no56dzk3l\">UNC basketball star RJ Davis hasn&#8217;t enjoyed a sizzling start to his graduate campaign in Chapel Hill. However, the 23-year-old New York native has heated up a smidge of late, including 46 points across the unranked Tar Heels&#8217; loss to Florida and win over UCLA last week.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_szmeqbj6z\"><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/unc\/basketball\/potential-unc-basketball-prize-caleb-wilson-set-decision-12-23-24\"> Potential Tar Heel Recruiting Prize Caleb Wilson Set for January Decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_nmmbqj2el\">Now, he sits No. 3 among the program&#8217;s all-time scorers as the Tar Heels (7-5, 1-0 ACC) prepare to wrap up their non-conference slate via a home game against the Campbell Fighting Camels (5-7, 0-0 CAA) at 8 p.m. ET Sunday (ACC Network). Davis&#8217; 2,310 career points are only 37 shy of No. 2 on the list in his former four-year UNC basketball teammate, Armando Bacot.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_p2px1ug64\">Should the defending ACC Player of the Year match his season average of 18.5 points between the squad&#8217;s next two outings, including a road bout against the Louisville Cardinals (7-5, 1-1 ACC) on New Year&#8217;s Day, he would tie the mark that Bacot posted across his five-year career. Of course, 38 points or more against Campbell \u2014 his career-high game total is 42 \u2014 would move Davis into No. 2 alone.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_4g1irwdp5\">It&#8217;s unlikely \u2014 albeit still conceivable \u2014 that Davis will reach the ACC-record 2,872 points that UNC basketball legend Tyler Hansbrough delivered as a 2005-09 Tar Heel.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ujhnnbhqg\">Even if Hubert Davis&#8217; fourth squad makes a deep run in March to log 40 games by the time the former five-star recruit&#8217;s final college season is all said and done, RJ Davis would need to eclipse 20 points per contest from here on out to overtake Tyler Hansbrough.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_8jv2eofbj\"><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/unc\/basketball\/five-star-unc-basketball-target-confirms-tar-heels-mix-12-23-24\">\u00a0Five-Star 2026 Forward Cameron Holmes Confirms Tar Heels Remain in Mix<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ceycvgsyr\"><em>Stay tuned to\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/unc\/\"><em><strong>North Carolina Tar Heels On SI<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for more UNC basketball news.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/unc\/basketball\/rj-davis-close-jump-unc-basketball-scoring-list-12-25-24\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Matt Giles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball UNC basketball star RJ Davis hasn&#8217;t enjoyed a sizzling start to his graduate campaign in Chapel Hill. However, the 23-year-old New York native has heated up a smidge of late, including 46 points across the unranked Tar Heels&#8217; loss to Florida and win over UCLA last week. ALSO READ: Potential Tar Heel Recruiting Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,4587,468],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-815048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-close","10":"category-davis","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}