Armando Bacot Surpasses Another UNC Basketball Legend in Points

The UNC basketball big man is closing in on 2,000 career points.

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UNC basketball graduate center Armando Bacot didn't have a huge scoring night for the ninth-ranked Tar Heels (9-3, 1-0 ACC) in Friday night's 105-60 home victory over unranked Charleston Southern. But it was enough for the 6-foot-11, 240-pound Virginia native to jump to No. 7 on the program's all-time scoring list.

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Bacot, now in his fifth season in Chapel Hill, finished the game with 12 points. He needed only eight to surpass late-1960s UNC basketball star forward Larry Miller (1,982).

His 1,987 points as a Tar Heel put him only 13 shy of joining the program's six-member 2,000-point club:

1. Tyler Hansbrough - 2,872
2. Phil Ford - 2,290
3. Sam Perkins - 2,145
4. Lennie Rosenbluth - 2,047
5. Al Wood - 2,015
6. Charlie Scott - 2,007

He has a reasonable shot to join the 2,000-point club and climb as high as No. 5 on the above list as soon as the Tar Heels' next outing.

If the 23-year-old Armando Bacot is to reach No. 2 on the list before the regular season ends — Hansbrough's mark is now well out of reach — he'll need to average at least 15.9 points across UNC's remaining 19 games. Through 12 games, he's averaging only 14.8 points, his lowest mark since he was a sophomore.

NEXT GAME: at Pitt (9-3, 0-1 ACC), 7 p.m. ET Tuesday (ESPN)

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