text: Radford, key backup on Indiana's basketball title team, dies | Eyeing IU | The Journal Gazette
  Monday, January 11, 2021 6:10 pm
  Athletic department officials confirmed Radford's death Sunday with one of his family members, but did not provide any details.
  Radford spent his entire career playing for in-state teams — Indianapolis Arlington High School, the Hoosiers and the NBA's Indiana Pacers. He is best known for scoring 16 points to help spur a 72-67 overtime victory over Michigan that kept Indiana's perfect record intact at 32-0.
  "Wayne was an outstanding student-athlete and a key member of some of our basketball program's all-time great teams in the 1970s," athletic director Scott Dolson said in a statement. "He was also one of our most involved and passionate alums for more than four decades, an active Varsity Club member who made an enormous contribution to our department as a member of our Varsity Club National Board of Directors. Wayne did all of that because he loved IU and IU Athletics, and he was committed to making a difference on behalf of our student-athletes."
  The Pacers used a second-round pick, No. 27 overall, to select Radford in the 1978 draft — making him the sixth member of Knight's first title team to play in the NBA. Radford played 52 games in his only season in the league, averaging 3.9 points off the bench before suffering a career-ending ankle injury.
  "Our entire program is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Wayne Radford," Indiana coach Archie Miller said on Twitter. "He embodied everything you would want to see in an IU basketball player. He was a champion in life and on the court."
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