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Smith finished the contest with a career-high 13 points in only 13 minutes. He finished 5-for-5 from the field, and sank all three free-throw attempts...
Phillips' shooting hasn't been the only part of his game that has been improving. The junior is second on the squad in steals and assists, and leads the team in free-throw percentage...
That year, three Crimson cagers were ranked among the nation's leaders in free-throw shooting. The frontrunner was Steve Alford--the same Steve Alford who last year led the Indiana Hoosiers to a national championship and now is playing for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Alford led all players that year, connecting at an incredible rate of 92 percent...
...selection panel, Johnson, 27, streaked past Chicago Bull Michael Jordan (ten votes) and Boston Celtic Larry Bird (one vote), who had been named mvp for the past three years. Now in his eighth season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson shot 52% from the field and 85% from the free-throw line, for an average career high of 23.9 points, and topped the team with 138 steals. Joked Johnson: "I'd like to thank Larry Bird for having a slightly off year and letting me win the award...
Many of those missed free throws in the first stanza were especially fatal for the Crimson, as they came at the front end of one-and-one situations, thus preventing additional free-throw opportunities...