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Word: scoringest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaning on runts such as Walt Hazzard (6 ft. 2 in.), who make up in speed, style and teamwork what they lack in brute size. In all team sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game, two-team total, for 3,890 major college games-a full 9.8 points higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Basketball: The Bruin Breed | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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