Word: dunks
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...most part, Ivy League basketball is a horizontal game—earthbound players embracing the fundamentals (the layup, the bank-shot, the bounce pass). The occasional dunk always excites the crowd because Ancient Eight basketball rarely occupies a vertical dimension...
...take Harvard’s first game against Princeton. After a missed jump shot by co-captain Jeremy Lin, Casey crashed the boards from the top of the key. He leapt in the air and slammed home the put-back dunk over Tigers guard Dan Mavraides...
...legitimate competition,” Murphy said. “If [Hatch] hadn’t been here, I’m not sure that it would have been. I would have said that Collier’s pretty much a slam dunk, but now there’s a competition, so we probably won’t know who our starting quarterback’s going to be until conceivably a week before the Holy Cross game...
Three minutes later, layups by Butts and Hunter helped their team close the half on a 13-0 run, punctuated by Hunter snatching the ball from Harvard’s Wright and eventually finding Williamson for a crowd-pleasing dunk...
...Euroskeptics, people unsettled by rapid social change and radical ideas. Such voters, historically decisive in U.K. polls, tend to view liberals and urban sophisticates with deep suspicion, and might be expected to react to the profoundly liberal, unambiguously sophisticated Clegg with all the enthusiasm of vampires invited to dunk their French fries in aioli...