Word: run-and-shoot
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...could not go all the way, even when Brigham Young's All-America Dick Nemelka got sidelined by foul trouble. Forward Gary Hill filled the gap left by Nemelka by scoring 21 points, 13 more than his season average. The whole Brigham Young team played such thoughtful run-and-shoot basketball that, after its 97-84 win, Coach Stan Watts gleefully added two words to the frequently used description of the Cougars' style, making it "wild and woolly-and calculated...
Cornell plays run-and-shoot basketball, and last season not an Ivy record by averaging 82 points per game. They scored 92 points in a loss to Brigham young, one of the country's top ten teams...
...Didn't Work." With Robertson in the lineup, Cincinnati was a run-and-shoot team that delighted fans with its hipper-dipper attack-but never won a national championship. When Jucker took over, Cincinnati abruptly became deliberate and defense-minded. "I asked myself where I was going to make up all those points," he says. "I decided that maybe if we gave up only 40 points a game, we wouldn't need to score much. But I knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker...