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Basketball: Randle’s monster night boosts him to No. 4 on Cal’s career scoring list
By Jeff Faraudo
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 11:34 pm in Basketball, Gameday.
Jerome Randle’s 33-point performance in Cal’s 93-81 win over Washington elevated him from sixth to fourth on the Bears’ all-time list.
The 5-foot-8 senior guard passed Bob McKeen (1952-55), who scored 1,654 points and held the school record for 32 years, then moved ahead of Kevin Johnson (1984-87), whose 1,655 points eclipsed McKeen’s mark.
Randle now has 1,656 points, which leaves him just 10 shy of No. 3 Joe Shipp (2000-03), who had 1,666.
Randle has a minimum of eight remaining games, and needs 121 to pass school-recordholder Sean Lampley (1998-01), who scored 1,776 points. If Randle plays just those eight games, he needs to merely average 15.1 ppg to break Lampley’s mark. Randle currently is scoring at a 19.7 pace.
Randle also has climbed to No. 24 all-time among the six Bay Area Division I teams.
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February 12th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Randle says: “This is MY HOUSE. I built this Haas”
February 12th, 2010 at 8:28 am
quickly – Randle seems like a bit of an enigma to me, you’d expect the possible career scorer leader to be a pure shooter ala Shipp, Anderson, Lampley, Murray, Grey, etc. His wild,off balance, hanging sideways bombs shot from well back of the arc that hit nothing but the bottom of the net always catch me as a “Nooooo-oohhh-YES!”. But he seems to have a bit of a shooter in him due to the “when you’re hot you’re hot, when you’re not you’re not” games that he has had. Either way, given last nights tumble, I hope he gets the chance to make a full run at the record and that both he and the Bears continue to play well.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:45 am
randle took control of the offense last night. it was the first game i’ve seen where he didn’t really spaz, at all. the whole team “took defense personally” as monty says, for the first time as well. and the rebounding! it was just a great game. best one this year. hope they keep rollin’
February 12th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
MikeD: Uhh, Randle is about as much of a pure shooter as you will find. Ridiculously accurate from beyond the arc (and from WAYYY beyond the arc), ridiculously accurate on difficult runners and floaters that he needs to get off in the face of guys a foot taller than he is, and Cal’s most accurate free throw shooter of all time. If that’s not a pure shooter, I don’t know what is.
February 13th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Agreed, CBKWit.
And anyone who has ever played ball knows a thing about being a streak shooter, because, indeed, “when you are hot you are hot”. There’s just a body-mind rhythm to it, and when you’re not, you’re not.
Can’t blame a man for being streaky. You can blame him for not being able to find and control that rhythm often. Those are BAD streak shooters. The good ones do their mental and physical warm ups so they are “ON” during gametime.
And good defenses will take shooters out of their rhythm – that’s what I thought UW would do to Randle and Christopher. And look who scored 33!
This is why I now proclaim the rest of this Cal Bear season to be a “Randle Coronation”!
He’s got it going, and at this point I don’t think it will stop till he graduates. All Hail, King Randle!
February 13th, 2010 at 9:33 am
For the record, Randle enters Saturday’s game vs. WSU as Cal’s career leader in FT percentage at 87.1 percent, the all-time season leader at 91.5 percent this season and No. 6 all-time in career 3-PT accuracy at 40.4 percent. I know I wouldn’t challenge him to a game of H-O-R-S-E.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:54 am
The quickness should be PAC10 P.O.Y.