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Redick, Williams Head To Cameron Rafters
1/11/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
By John Roth, Blue Devils Weekly
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke's two biggest basketball stars of the past four years are returning to campus in the coming weeks for retirement parties.
Jersey retirements, to be exact.
J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams, lottery picks in the NBA Draft last summer and now rookies in the league, will be back at Cameron Indoor Stadium to have their Duke jersey numbers raised to the rafters at a pair of upcoming games.
Williams' No. 23 will be retired at Duke's home game with Boston College on Jan. 28, while Redick's No. 4 will be retired the following Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Blue Devils' game with Florida State.
Duke previously has retired 12 basketball jersey numbers, honoring 11 men and one woman. The most recent retirement came in January 2004 for women's star Alana Beard during her senior season. The last men's jersey to be retired was Jason Williams' No. 22, in February 2003 during a break in his rookie season in the NBA.
Jason Williams was the fourth player to have his jersey retired following the conclusion of his career. The other eight were, like Beard, retired during the honoree's final season. Dick Groat, the first Blue Devil to have his jersey retired in 1952, was honored a couple of months after basketball season ended with a ceremony at a Duke baseball game. Art Heyman and Jeff Mullins, stars of the 1960s, had their numbers retired in the 1990s.
Redick and Williams were in the lineup together for all 139 Duke games during their four years together, helping the Blue Devils to a 116-23 overall record and a 49-15 ACC mark. Duke won the ACC championship three of their four years, finished in the national top 10 and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament all four years, and went to one Final Four, in 2004.
Redick, a guard from Roanoke, Va., led the ACC in scoring his junior and senior seasons, earning back-to-back ACC player of the year and ACC Tournament MVP honors. He was Duke's team scoring leader his last three years and became the all-time scoring leader in school history last year when he broke Johnny Dawkins' 20-year-old Duke career mark.
Redick then went on to become the top scorer in ACC history, finishing with 2,769 points. The previous record, held by former Wake Forest star Dickie Hemric, had been on the books for over 50 years.
Redick also set the NCAA record for most career three-pointers made (457), and finished as the top free throw shooter in ACC history, hitting over 91 percent for his career and once making 54 in a row. His senior year was his best statistically, when he scored a Duke record 964 points and averaged 26.8 points per game, the best scoring average in school history and the second best in the country last year.
Redick ended his career with the most 20-point scoring games in Duke history (70), the most 30-point games (20) and tied with Groat for the most 40-point games (3).
Along with his second straight unanimous selection to the All-ACC team, Redick was the consensus national player of the year, the ACC male athlete of the year and the Sullivan Award winner as the top amateur athlete in the U.S.
Williams was second to Redick in scoring on last year's Duke team, with 18.8 points per game, but he led the Blue Devils in rebounding (10.7 average) and blocked shots (137). He finished his four years as the school's career leader in both those categories, surpassing former record holder Mike Gminski, whose records had stood for over 25 years. Williams ended with 1,262 rebounds (20 more than Gminski) and 422 blocks (77 more than G-Man).
Williams posted the top three season totals for blocked shots in Duke history and led the ACC in that category each of those three years. He also led the ACC in rebounding his last two years, the first player under coach Mike Krzyzewski to lead the league in rebounding.
Williams was the national and conference defensive player of the year in each of his last two seasons, and last year was the only player who was a unanimous selection to both the All-ACC and All-ACC defensive teams.
Williams last year became just the third Duke player ever to post a triple-double when he had 19 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocked shots against Maryland. He finished with 59 career double-doubles, second only to Gminski in Duke annals, and his 1,928 career points rank 13th in Duke history.
Williams was the No. 5 pick in the NBA Draft last June, by the Atlanta Hawks. He has started 24 of his team's 30 games this season, averaging 6.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He had a high of 20 points against Detroit on Nov. 22 and finished December with four straight double-figures rebounding games, including a season high of 15 against Detroit.
Redick, the No. 11 pick in the draft by Orlando, was slowed by some preseason injuries and has played in just eight NBA games so far, averaging 4.4 points. His best two contests have come in the last week, with nine points in 12 minutes during a win over Miami, and eight points in 11 minutes during a win over Charlotte.
Williams' Jan. 28 visit to Duke will be sandwiched in between Hawks' home games on Jan. 27 with Philadelphia and Jan. 29 with Orlando. Redick will have a home game with the Knicks the night before his Feb. 4 trip to Duke.
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