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Basketball: Pac-10 honors Randle, Christopher
By Jeff Faraudo
Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm in Basketball.
Cal junior guards Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher were named to the 10-man All-Pac-10 first team today.
“I’m really pleased for them,” Cal coach Mike Montgomery said. “It’s nice recognition for a job well-done.”
The team is picked by a vote of the coaches, who this year changed their format again. After years of choosing a 10-man team along with honorable mention picks, the coaches last year chose a first, second and third team, each comprising five players. Made sense — basketball is a five-man game. It was a good change.
This year, they picked a 10-man first team, then a five-man second team, which really is the third team when you consider the first unit is two five-man groups. Oh well, it’s their team so they can do what they want. But we liked 5-5-5.
Randle finished the regular season third in the Pac-10 in scoring at 18.4 ppg and tied for the conference lead in assists at 5.0 per game. He’s shooting 87.2 percent from the FT line and 46.7 percent from the 3-point arc.
Christopher averages 14.6 points, 12th-best in the Pac-10, and is shooting 82.0 percent from the line, 38.7 percent from 3-point range.
Either Randle or Christopher has led the Bears in scoring 24 of 31 games this season.
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March 9th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Congrats to Randle and Christopher, although I believe Theo Robertson deserved at least an honorable mention. I thought he was more valuable and integral than Christopher. Seemed like Robertson would always guard the opposing team’s best wing player and was a much more consistent threat than Christopher.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I agree I liked 5-5-5, too. But they probably felt pitted against one another, arguing for “their” player to get the nod over another. Lobbying, etc. The compromise avoids conflict, but waters it down.