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Grossman returned from injuries to both Achilles' tendons to display her long-distance shooting once again. Brandt solidified her role as the top Ivy sixth man, contributing relentless defense, aggressive rebounding and gorgeous backdoor passing along with her own perimeter prowess...
Shortly thereafter, Seanor fed Feaster with agorgeous backdoor pass that the All-Americanconverted into a layup to pull Harvard to withinone. Following a missed shot by the Cardinal,Miller came back and hit an off-balance runnerfrom the foul line to put theB-3NCAAPeter DeSilvaJUMP AROUND: Sophomore LAELA STURDY(left) basks in the exhilaration of the Harvard'srecord-breaking victory at Stanford on Saturdaynight...
...absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball and force shots from 30 feet. My inner coach wants to bench all these Michael Jordan wannabes. But it's a lost cause. You see such play everywhere these days. Especially...
...real genius of the Princeton offense is not its moral idealism but its real-world practicality. At every moment you have a set of binary options that anticipates each possible move of your opponent--and gives you a way to overcome it. Is your man overplaying you? Cut backdoor. Is he sloughing off? Come out for the pass. If your teammate dribbles toward you, either cut away or scoot round for a hand-off. As if you were playing judo with a ball, you always use the strength of your opponent against...
...strengths on offense are her perimeter shooting and her uncanny ability to throw crowd-stunning backdoor passes to teammates breaking towards the basket. Brandt finished the season atop the Ivy League in threepoint shooting percentage, dropping 46.8 percent of her shots from beyond the arc in conference games...