Perspective: A small guard at little Campbell leaps among the biggest scorers in college hoops history
By John Feinstein John Feinstein Bio Columnist March 8 BUIES CREEK, N.C. — They had come to see their team take another step toward a berth in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — something that has only happened once before in school history, 27 years ago.
Sensing the NCAA dream starting to slip away, Clemons adjusted. Down six, with all eyes in the sparkling 3,095-seat arena on him, he caught the ball on the right wing and exploded to the basket. He went past Hampton’s excellent guard, Jermaine Marrow, saw help coming in the form of 6-6 Ben Stanley, twisted in midair, spun the ball into the basket and hit the floor hard as Stanley fouled him.
He also moved into fourth place on the Division I career scoring list. On Friday, in the tournament semifinals against Gardner-Webb, he scored 23 points to increase his total to 3,193, 24 short of Lionel Simmons of La Salle for third and 56 short of Freeman Williams of Portland State for second. Only LSU legend Pete Maravich, with 3,667, is out of reach.
Clemons speaks so softly most of the time you have to lean close to him to hear what he’s saying. On the court, though, everything he does is loud. He has a 44-inch vertical leap and there are moments when he jumps or cuts so quickly going after a ball it appears that everyone else is in slow motion.
Clemons is a classic example of the kid the big-time coaches overlooked because of his height. He grew up in Raleigh, dreaming of playing in the ACC — specifically for North Carolina. By the time he was a high school junior, he understood that wasn’t going to happen. He has gotten better each year. As a sophomore, he struggled for a while from the free throw line, decided he was missing long and left and moved back about four inches and to the right corner of the foul line. He stayed there and has made 87.3 percent of his free throws this season.
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