You’re going to hear this roughly a zillion times this year, so I’ll go ahead and edjumacate you on the facts – yes, J.J. Redick has a very good chance to become Duke’s all-time leading scorer and Shelden Williams has a shot at becoming Duke’s all-time leading rebounder. An article at the DBR breaks it down.
Shelden will also break the Duke block record and could finish as a top-fifteen scorer.
I think it’s pretty amazing any time any player makes a run a school’s career scoring record, particularly a program like Duke. But let’s not mistake this for what it is – a combination of near-greatness and longevity. While Redick is a great shooter and a very good scorer, he isn’t nearly the player that Johnny Dawkins was. And Duke has had several other much better players who just didn’t stay for four years.