2018-19 Men's Basketball Roster
Brandon Childress
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Winston-Salem, N.C.
- High School:
- Wesleyan Christian Academy
OF NOTE
• Led the team in scoring and assists in 2018-19 and 2019-20
• Final position in the Wake Forest career record book: 7th in 3-pointers (190), 8th in minutes (3,683), 9th in assists (443), 12th in steals (140), 18th in free throws (375) and 25th in scoring (1,415)
• Son of associate head coach Randolph Childress and the pair are the highest scoring father-son duo in ACC history (3,623)
2019-20 SEASON (SENIOR)
• Started 30 games (missed one due to injury)
• Honorable Mention All-ACC
• Averaged 15.6 points and 4.6 assists per game
• Led the team in scoring, assists, steals and minutes
• Had 25 double-figure scoring games, including seven 20-point games
• Scored a career-high 30 points (10-13 FG, 5-6 3FG) vs. NC State (Dec. 7)
• Had 14 points and a career-high 10 assists for first career double-double vs. North Carolina (Feb. 11)
• Had 24 points and nine assists at North Carolina (Mar. 3)
• Had 17 points (including his 1,000th career point) and had nine assists vs. UNC Asheville (Nov. 13)
• Had 24 points, six rebounds and five assists at Notre Dame (Jan. 29)
• Had 24 points and seven assists in the season opener at Boston College (Nov. 6)
2018-19 SEASON (JUNIOR)
• Started all 31 games
• Averaged 14.7 points and 4.0 assists per game
• Led the team in scoring, assists, 3-pointers, steals and minutes
• First Demon Deacon since 2009-10 to average over 36 minutes per game
• Had 27 double-figure scoring games, including six 20-point games
• Set career-highs of 28 points and seven 3-pointers at Georgia Tech (Jan. 5)
• Matched a career high with 28 points at No. 9 Virginia Tech (Jan. 19)
• Had 21 points, including game-winning 3-pointer, and five assists vs. Miami (Feb. 26)
• Had 20 points (5-7 3FG), eight assists, seven rebounds and three steals at Notre Dame (Feb. 19)
• Scored 27 points vs. Houston Baptist (Nov. 23)
• Led Wake Forest in assists in each of the first 16 games of a season, the first Deacon to accomplish the feat since Muggsy Bogues led the team in assists in all 29 games of his senior season in 1986-87
2017-18 SEASON (SOPHOMORE)
• Appeared in 30 games, making five starts
• Averaged 9.1 points and 3.6 assists per game
• Second on the team with 109 assists
• Had 12 double-figure scoring games
• Scored a season-high 18 points vs. No. 4 Duke (Jan. 23)
• Had a career-high nine assists in the season-opener vs. Georgia Southern (Nov. 10)
• Had 17 points and eight assists vs. Army West Point (Dec. 8)
2016-17 SEASON (FRESHMAN)
• Appeared in all 33 games off the bench
• Averaged 6.6 points and 2.2 assists per game
• Third on the team with 71 assists
• Five of six double figure scoring games came vs. ACC opponents
• Scored a career-high 16 points, all in the second half, vs. No. 11 North Carolina (Jan. 11)
• Had seven assists (and no turnovers) vs. No. 17 Duke (Jan. 28)
• Had 15 points (3-4 3FG) vs. Virginia Tech in ACC 2nd Round (Mar. 8)
• Opened the season with 16 consecutive made free throws, the longest streak by a Deacon to open his career (previous record: 14 by Chris Paul in 2003-04)
HIGH SCHOOL
• Played his junior and senior seasons at Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point
• 2016 NCISAA 3A All-State selection
• Earned all-conference honors
• Four-star recruit by ESPN.com
• Ranked the No. 27 point guard in the class of 2016 by ESPN
• Played at East Forsyth High School as a freshman and sophomore
• Played AAU basketball for the Karolina Diamonds
PERSONAL
• Full name is Brandon Reginald Childress
• Son of Randolph Childress and Jenai Childress
• Born August 31, 1997 in Detroit, Mich.
• Father, Wake Forest associate head coach Randolph Childress, played for the Demon Deacons from 1992-95, earning All-America honors as a senior before being selected by the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft
• Has a brother, Deven
