A fifth season of college was necessary. However, UNC basketball player RJ Davis now holds sole ownership of seventh place on the all-time ACC scoring chart, surpassing Duke basketball legend Christian Laettner.
In the first half of Tuesday night’s Tar Heels away game against Duke basketball alum Jeff Capel’s Pitt Panthers, Davis overtook Laettner (2,460 points), another New York native.
The 23-year-old Davis, who averaged 17.7 points per game as a graduate student under Hubert Davis earlier this season after finishing as the eventual ACC Player of the Year with a career-high 21.2 points per game the previous round, overtook Kyle Singler (2,392 points), a 2010 Blue Devil national champion, on the list.
Now at No. 9, Singler is one spot lower than Laettner, who won consecutive national titles in 1991 and 1992 under Mike Krzyzewski.
RJ Davis still has a chance to finish lower than only fellow UNC basketball alum Tyler Hansbrough (2,872 points) and move up to No. 2. If he did, he would surpass two other former Blue Devils: JJ Redick, who is now ranked No. 2 with 2,769 points, and Johnny Dawkins, who is presently ranked No. 4 with 2,556 points.
Naturally, at 6:30 p.m. ET on Saturday (ESPN), Jon Scheyer’s Blue Devils (18-2, 10-0 ACC) will take against RJ Davis and the bitter rival Tar Heels (13-8, 6-3 ACC) in Durham.
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