Word: lay-up
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...opponents are flabbergasted by a human helicopter who can soar from the foul line to the backboard with magnificent ease. With Erving handling the red, white and blue A.B.A. ball, a standard stuff shot turns into airborne acrobatics, often ending in a backward, over-the-head slam dunk. A lay-up is embellished with the kind of fakery that the Harlem Globetrotters made famous...
With less than four minutes to play, Notre Dame began the assault. Shumate scored two quick baskets. Freshman Forward Adrian Dantley made an easy lay-up after stealing a pass, and Guard Gary Brokaw (Notre Dame's high scorer with 25 points), hit two jumpers to bring the Irish to within one point with 1 min. 10 sec. left on the clock. Notre Dame Guard Dwight Clay finally ended the suspense. From the right corner, with 28 sec. left, he hit for Notre Dame's twelfth straight-and winning-point. With six sec. left, and the score...
Harvard's Lou Silver and Ken Wolfe also hit for four points in the late going, but B.U.'s Steve Dabney slipped behind the Harvard mid-court press for a lay-up with 24 seconds left to clinch the squeaker for the Terriers...
Jenkins missed the free throw and two consecutive jumpshots, but set the stage for Skinner's second explosion. The All-Yankee-Conference forward went wild, hitting on a jumper, stealing the in-bounds pass, and scoring again on a twisting lay-up through three Crimson defenders...
Beecroft and Ken Wolfe then exchanged baskets, on a 20-footer and a fast break lay-up, respectively. But Beecroft came back to hit for a three-point play which gave Penn a 60-57 margin and sent the Quakers on their way, leading for good...