Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line, and Harvard is playing superhuman defense. Tiger point guard Gary Knapp looks around in wild desperation--there's no-one open, no-one at all. Finally it comes, the referee's whistle. And everyone's on their feet, screaming, as the ref tosses up the jump ball that could decide the game...
Following the dictum of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), athletic directors all across the country have been purchasing "possession indicators," little scoreboards with a pair of illuminated arrows pointing in opposite direction. After the game-opening jump ball, the lighted arrow points toward the team that lost the jump; the next time a jump ball situation develops, that team just takes the ball out of bounds; for the rest of the game, the all-powerful arrow alternates back and forth after each jump situation...
...other words, the jump ball no longer exists except at the start of the contest...
What happened? "There were a lot of complaints that officials were not performing the toss-up technique very well," Bruce Howard of the NCAA explains. Not only that, adds NCAA rules committee secretary Ed Steitz, "some people felt the jump ball played right into the hands of the teams with seven footers, the 7-foot-2 players...
...apparent to anyone who sees him play that Olson retains the talent that got him to the varsity in the first place, so it should be just a matter of time before he makes the jump...