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...first free throw, and then miss the second one intentionally with the faint hope of grabbing an offensive rebound and tying the game before the buzzer sounds. There's no denying that the chances of that scenario succeeding are a lot slimmer than nailing a last-second three pointer...
...last year's Sweet Sixteen, Washington had a three-point lead against UConn with eight seconds left to play. Rather than send a UConn player to the line, Washington let Rashad Anderson hit a three-pointer with 1.8 seconds left to tie it. UConn won in overtime. And on it goes. "It's a no-brainer," says CBS commentator Mike Gminski, who starred at Duke and played 14 years in the NBA, of the fouling strategy. "There are so many scenarios that have to happen for fouling to backfire, while if you don't foul, a three-pointer...
...first few minutes of the game, Harvard matched the Terrapins shot for shot and even jumped out to a four-point advantage two minutes into the game on a three-pointer by Lackner, but that would be the last time the Crimson led. Down early, Maryland cranked up the pressure and started to look more like the reigning national champs...
...little extra because of that decision, but I don’t think that her performance was necessarily out of the ordinary.”Doron wasted no time making her presence felt offensively, answering Crimson forward Katie Rollins’s game-opening layup with a three-pointer at the 18:14 mark. “I was feeling it early, and my teammates continued to find me so I got some good looks,” Doron said. “The extra pass was there today and that’s why we shot the ball...
...from the outside and also for us to penetrate a little more.”As in the previous night’s game against Cornell, however, the Crimson would scratch away the early deficit with an extended run. A 12-0 spurt, capped by a three-pointer from Goffredo, gave Harvard an 18-15 advantage, raising the hope that the Crimson could pull off an improbable road sweep on the season’s last weekend.But the Lions closed the first half by outscoring Harvard 20-5 and took a 37-26 lead into halftime. Whether...