Word: basket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UCLA, the rules were changed expressly to thwart him. Dunking, jamming the ball into the basket from above, was temporarily outlawed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Still, with a sullen grace and dispassionate touch, he showed UCLA to 88 wins in 90 games and three national titles. He was the NBA's first draft choice...
...overtime, freshman Rich Medina's two foul shots gave Cornell an early 72-70 lead. But a steal by Phillips and his subsequent lay-up tied the game. The basket made Phillips the 14th Harvard basketball player to join the 1000 point club...
...once again, Ferry wouldn't allow the Crimson to take the lead. He fed Brickey for a layup and then hit another three-point basket to up the Blue Devil's margin to 10 points...
With nine minutes to go in the half, Brown guard Krista Butterfield fired the ball from mid-court to Tunstall, who nabbed a basket from the baseline. This gave the Bruins a 10-point lead...
...course the true basket case is the Soviet Union. (Its decline does not settle the argument between the overstretch and the sclerosis schools, since the Soviets are experts at both.) Gorbachev faces a society whose entire political and economic structure is ossified...