Wake Forest Athletics
Dave Budd Named ACC Tournament Legend
2/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Dave Budd, a star forward for Wake Forest from 1956-60, has been named to the 2015 ACC Men's Basketball Legends Class, as announced by the league office on Tuesday.
A two-time all-conference player from Woodbury, New Jersey, Budd was a key inside player for head coach Bones McKinney's early teams as the Demon Deacons began their rise through the ACC's upper division.
Budd finished his three-year varsity career at Wake Forest with 1,014 points (13.5 per game) and 682 career rebounds to rank 19th on Wake Forest's all-time list. The 6-foot-6 Budd led the Demon Deacons in scoring and in rebounding both his sophomore and junior years.
As a senior in 1960, he helped Wake Forest to a 21-7 overall record and a first-place ACC regular-season finish (12-2), as the Deacons lay the groundwork for the back-to-back ACC championships and NCAA Tournament runs that were to follow in the next two seasons.
Budd was the 10th overall selection by the New York Knicks in the 1961 NBA Draft and played in the league for five years. Budd then returned to his hometown and enjoyed a successful business career, serving as president and sole owner of the Gloucester County Packing Company.
He continues to have close ties to Wake Forest, where an on-campus practice facility for the men's and women's basketball teams is named the Dave Budd Gymnasium in his honor.
This year's ACC Legends class includes two National Players of the Year, a Final Four MVP, seven players who earned conference player of the year honors and a pair of ACC Tournament MVPs. The group combined to make eight NCAA Final Four appearances and capture 10 ACC Tournament titles. The two coaches in this year's class own a combined 971 wins in 51 collegiate seasons.
The Legends will be recognized during the 2015 New York Life ACC Tournament, which will be held March 10-14 at the Greensboro Coliseum. They will be featured at the annual ACC Legends Luncheon, which will be held Friday, March 13, beginning at noon in the Guilford Ballroom of the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel. They will then be introduced that evening to the Greensboro Coliseum crowd during halftime of the first semifinal game.
For complete information on current and past ACC Legends classes, visit http://www.theacc.com/Legends.
Legends Luncheon
The Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Legends presented by New York Life will be honored at a luncheon on Friday, March 13. The luncheon, begins at noon in the Guilford Ballroom of the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel in Greensboro and the event will conclude with a short autograph session. Tickets for the ACC Basketball Legends Luncheon are $35 each, and tables of 10 are available for $350 each. Information on purchasing tickets may be obtained at the official ACC website--http://theacc.co/MBB15legendstix.
2015 ACC Legends Class:
Malcolm Huckaby, Guard, Boston College
Horace Grant, Forward, Clemson
Shane Battier, Forward, Duke
Doug Edwards, Forward, Florida State
Bobby Cremins, Head Coach, Georgia Tech
Junior Bridgeman, Guard/Forward, Louisville
Darius Rice, Forward, Miami
Franklin "Rusty" Clark, Center, North Carolina
Vinny Del Negro, Guard, NC State
Troy Murphy, Forward, Notre Dame
Billy Knight, Guard/Forward, Pitt
Derrick Coleman, Forward, Syracuse
Donald Hand, Guard, Virginia
Charlie Moir, Head Coach, Virginia Tech
Dave Budd, Forward, Wake Forest
