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...Harvard showed its first real signs of life. Behind 28 to 16, the Crimson reeled off eight straight points: Leo Scully connected on a pair of jump shots from outside the key, Al Bornheimer bucketed a long set shot, and Pete Kelley capped the first half action with a layup that made the score...
...almost every team they face, Hinkle's toy Bulldogs concentrate on opportunistic "pattern" basketball. They badger opponents with a constant full-court press, patiently set up "give-and-go" plays designed to catch the defenders off guard, and spring a Butler player loose for a driving two-point layup. If they are unable to clear a path to the basket, they feed the ball back to Williams-whose one-hand ed jump shot from 15 ft. is among the most accurate "outside" shots in college basketball. So far this season, the whole Butler team is hitting the basket...
...unforgivable sin in professional basketball is "bridging," or "tunneling," in which a defensive man slyly ducks under a player who is driving for a layup. In one celebrated case of bridging, the Celtics' Bob Harris broke the left wrist of Schayes in 1954. Bridging is now rare, as is the unprovoked, intentional foul calculated to injure. "If a guy belts me on a legitimate play, fine and dandy," says Twyman. "I'll belt him down at the other end. But if a guy is dirty, really dirty, he's out to lunch. He can't watch...
Baylor, the Los Angeles star, sank a layup and a freethrow in the second minute, giving the West a 5-2 lead, and the East trailed the rest of the way. Baylor scored four more points in the next two minutes as the West ran up an 11-4 lead...
Then Chevalier drew the loudest cheer of the night for a driving layup during which he passed the ball behind his back twice. Later, he huried an overhand pass through a cluster of people under the basket to set up an easy two points for Ward...