Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history. A doubtful starter because of a wrist fractured in the previous game, he appeared on court wearing football linemen's pads on both hands. Despite that handicap, Wilt never looked better. With uncanny timing he blocked shots (ten) and grabbed rebounds (29); he muscled in to the hoop to sink points (24), and his picks and passes set up score after score by teammates...
...always forced to move out to try to stop him. That clears the lane to the basket for lay-ups and rebounds by the rest of the Knicks. If the opposing center hangs back and does not take the bait, Lucas can usually make him reconsider by bombing the hoop with a mortar-like barrage...
When he was a 5-ft. 10½-in. guard at Purdue, John Robert Wooden used to fling himself toward the hoop with such desire that he once ended up in the fifth row of the college band. Today, his fellow coaches in college basketball have good reason to wish Wooden had got permanently stuck in a tuba. For defeating the Wooden-coached U.C.L.A. Bruins has become as seemingly impossible as shooting a winning basket while sitting down-another feat of Wooden's playing career at Purdue...
...speaker isn't Bob Harrison or John Wooden or even Lefty Driesell. These words of praise come from an unlikely hoop hotbed--the Radcliffe gym, and the proud speaker is the 'Cliffe's first varsity coach in over a decade, Perla Hewes...
...exciting finish to the second game of the opening round in the Beanpot Basketball Tournament last night in Boston Garden, B.U. toppled B.C., 85-83. The Terriers meet Harvard in the final game of the second annual Hub hoop championship scheduled...