Tyler Hansbrough is quite a "hit" with the ladies

Enjoy this story of a UNC graduate's recent weekend in Chapel Hill with his girlfriend. Usually, it would be an exciting moment to come across an elite college athlete on the streets, but this was an exception. It does, however, shed some light on how Tyler Hansbrough earned the nickname "Psycho T."

As many of you know, I'm an '06 graduate of UNC. My girlfriend is also an '06 grad, and we were in Chapel Hill this weekend for a wedding at the Carolina Inn. We had a great time, earlier we had seen Deon Thompson walking down the street, my girlfriend, who doesn't know Deon, yells 'Hey Deon' at him, and he smiles and waves.

After the wedding, we went out in Chapel Hill, and at around 1:20, my gf, and one of her best friends see Hansbrough surrounded by like 4 girls walking down the sidewalk on Franklin st. My gf's friend, who is pretty outgoing, asks him for a picture. Hansbrough initially walks past, pretending not to hear her. She then walks up behind him, and taps him on the back, thinking he may not have heard her, and he turns around, yells "What the hell do you want?", and cocks his fist back. The girl is absolutely stunned, and can't even say anything as Hansbrough walks away like a big jackass. Wes Miller, who was walking about 20 feet behind him with a group of his friends saw what happened, and actually stopped and asked her what was wrong, and took a picture with them (who really wants that, but it made my gf's friend feel better).

Seriously, who cocks their fist back at a girl. If you're a big star or whatever, you should expect for people to ask for your autograph on the street, and not act like a giant spazzed out assclown, and NEVER threaten to hit one. I was off talking with a couple friends, and I all I saw was him yelling, and walking off. After hearing the story, it really lose pretty much all respect for the guy.

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Hey, at least Deon Thompson and Wes Miller aren't pricks. Way to go guys

I find this behavior from Hansbrough interesting from a psychological level. What would make him so edgy that he would threaten to punch a girl? Some preliminary theories include:

• He's still on edge after the Gerald Henderson incident.
• His girlfriend is one of those insanely jealous types who gets pissy any time he talks to another girl on campus, so he has to overcompensate by acting like a complete ass to every female on campus to prove he's not trying to bed every girl with a pulse.

I think both have some merit.

By the way, this reminds me: was there a more enjoyable moment this basketball season than when Hansbrough tried to act like he actually wanted to fight Henderson after the elbow?

I really don't think so. Yeah, Tyler, you're the man. Way to let the 5-foot-11 walk-on restrain you. You really wanted to show him. And you had a broken nose anyway, jackass. What were you going to do?

To wrap this up, the moral of the story is never meet your heroes. I have always subscribed to this theory. As a sports fan, you always hear negative personal stories about your favorite athletes and it just kills you. I like to think of them as pefect in my mind. What if I met Darrell Green on a bad day and he shrugged me off? That would destroy me. The same goes with Art Monk, Cal Ripken Jr., Juan Dixon, etc. I honestly have no desire to ever meet the guys.

Second moral of the story: Do NOT tap Tyler Hansbrough on the back. Ever.