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Armando Bacot Quickly Rising on All-Time UNC Basketball Scoring List

Armando Bacot might be only a few games away from becoming the seventh member of UNC basketball's 2,000-point club.
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Armando Bacot has passed four Tar Heels (Joel Berry, Bobby Lewis, Marcus Paige, Walter Davis) on the program's all-time scoring list through three games in his fifth UNC basketball campaign. The 23-year-old center, who passed Michael Jordan in March, now sits 10th with 1,878 points.

And considering Bacot's production level this season, it wouldn't be shocking if he entered the top five on that list in early December.

With 138 more points, he'll have passed Brad Daughtery (1,912), Antawn Jamison (1,974), Larry Miller (1,982), Charles Scott (2,007), and fifth-place Al Wood (2,015).

On Sunday, Bacot and the Tar Heels boarded the plane for the Bahamas. They will play three games in three days as part of this week's Battle 4 Atlantis. That slate begins with a matchup against Northern Iowa in Paradise Island's Imperial Arena on Wednesday at noon ET.

UNC will host Tennessee on Nov. 29 as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. Then, the Tar Heels will welcome Florida State to the Dean E. Smith Center on Dec. 2 for their ACC opener.

Three days later, they will face the reigning national champion, UConn, in a Jimmy V Classic showdown at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

By season's end, Armando Bacot probably won't have flirted with the 2,872 career points of all-time UNC basketball scoring leader Tyler Hansbrough.

But the 2,290 points of second-place Phil Ford are well within reach for the former composite five-star recruit from Virginia, who is now averaging 22.7 points for the 2023-24 Tar Heels.

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