Remembering Randolph

On Thursday, the fifty-first ACC tournament begins. Well, at least the Les Robinson Invitational takes place. The tournament really starts in earnest on Friday.
This is a great time of year for ACC fans – our Christmas season. We get a great tournament this weekend and then a few days of rest before the NCAA tournament begins next Thursday. I’m giddy just thinking about it!
When I think about the ACC tournament, I can’t help but think back to my favorite tournament moment. Actually, it wasn’t really a moment, but a performance I’ll never forget. I’m not a Wake Forest fan, but what Randolph Childress did for Wake in 1995 still astonishes me. It was the greatest single streak of athletic performance that I’ve ever witnessed.
Wake, behind Childress and sophomore Tim Duncan finished the regular season in a four-way tie for first place with UNC, Virginia and Maryland at 12-4. Wake won the tiebreakers and got the first seed for the tournament. ’95 was the season of the infamous Duke collapse, when Krzyzewski missed most of the season and Duke finished in last place at 2-14. Duke won their Thursday night game against Les Robinson’s NC State team (of course, back then, State always played in that game).
So, Wake got Duke on Friday and Childress absolutely torched them, hitting 8 threes and scoring 40 points while also dishing out 7 assists. His 40 points tied for the fifth most in ACC tournament history.
On Saturday, Wake played and beat a talented Virginia team that would eventually end up one game away from the Final Four. Childress had his “worst” game of the tournament, hitting only 6 threes and scoring 30 points. Once again, he had 7 assists.
In the championship game, Wake faced a UNC team that featured Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Donald Williams and Jeff McInnis and would eventually make the Final Four. Wake prevailed in overtime 82-80 behind Childress’ 9 three pointers, 37 points and 7 assists. Childress scored all 9 of Wake’s overtime points including the game-winning jumper with 7 seconds left.
It was a simply incredible three-game performance. Childress smashed the old scoring record by hitting for 107 points, an average of 35.7 points per game. He hit 23 three pointers in the three games, hitting 8, 6 and then 9. This entire season, only two ACC players had 8 three pointers in a single game. And on top of all that scoring, he dished out 19 assists. If you assume that those were all 2-point baskets, that means that Childress accounted for just under 50 points per game!
And he did all of that while playing with a broken finger.
One funny sidenote to the weekend was that after all of that, Childress was not unanimously selected as the MVP. In fact he wasn’t even a unanimous selection as first team all tourney! Out of a possible 177 MVP points, he received 174. Joe Smith, whose team didn’t even make the finals, earned 2 votes for tournament MVP. Donald Williams of UNC got the other. For the all tournament team voting, Childress actually came in second, behind Rasheed Wallace of UNC who scored 9 points in the championship game. Hopefully the ACC hunted these morons down and took their voting privileges just after beating them with a lead pipe.


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