Word: hoop
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...NCAA hoop has picked up the slack a bit, now that nobody has any idea of who the best team in the nation really is. San Francisco had its cover blown two weeks in a row when Notre Dame and Nevada-Las Vegas proved that the Dons' schedule is about as formidable as Beaver Country...
When center Sue Hewitt took the ball to the hoop, three-quarters of the way through the half, the Crimson women got their biggest break of the game. As Hewitt turned to shoot, Westfield's Carter went for the block, caught Hewitt on the arm, and chalked up her fifth foul, sending her out of the game for good...
...came close to letting her senior year slip by without hoop. The season was two weeks old before she came to a Crimson practice. At that point she was planning not to play. 'The past three years of basketball here had been such bad experiences for me," she said, "that I didn't want to continue the painful times...
...basketball tournament at the Palestra, some intense rivalries developed. The weaker teams like Barnard and Dartmouth were trounced by powerful Princeton and Yale, but continuous action and constant tension sparked the gymnasium crowd. In its third year, the hoop tourney was more exciting than in previous years because of an improved level of play and the increased competitiveness of various squads...
...Making do is not crossing the half-court line and throwing five consecutive passes of no more than three feet, none of which is towards the hoop, but rather away from the man-to-man defenses...