Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of scoring, the Cornell match was a travesty. On the few baskets Cornell did manage to sink, Cornell was "wicked lucky," recalls forward Marget Long, adding that the Big Red would "chuck the ball wildly at the hoop," and it would somehow go in. The hoopsters had little hindrance in their shooting, and most everyone who played came away with eight or ten points. Frenessa Hall led the pack with...
...have never made a bigger basket," Woolridge said afterward. "I grabbed the ball, turned and shot and didn't think about it until I saw it went through the hoop. It happened so quick I didn't realize the impact until about 800 people jumped...
...Crimson, struggling most of the second half, gained possession of the ball with 1:10 left, with the score tied at 63-all. Looking for the last shot, Harvard seemed unable to get off any shot at all, until Calvin Dixon desperately drove for the hoop with five seconds left...
...final game against the U.S.A., the Columbia Lions last night found themselves in desperate need of two points with three seconds left on the clock. Unlike the Russians, who got their two points and triumphed in the only game the United Sates has ever lost in Olympic hoop, the Lions didn't get theirs last night, losing to the Crimson here...
Early in the second half of last Tuesday's Harvard-Northeastern basketball game, Huskie Dave Leitao--putting the finishing touch on a Northeastern fast break--received a pass deep in the lane, took one giant step toward the basket, and delicately laid the ball through the hoop...