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...college basketball - and NBA - season, elite coaches fail to make a move that any barstool Bobby Knight would surely recommend (and will surely scream at the TV). With your team up three points, and just a few seconds left in the game, the opponent needs a long-distance three-point shot to tie it up. So, it would stand to reason, you should prevent the other player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot the ball. In the college game, that usually sends the opponent to the line, forcing...
...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...
...coach's job is also to give his team the best shot of winning, and especially in the college game, that means fouling to prevent a last-second three-point attempt. College players, after all, have become so ridiculously proficient at three-pointers that many hoops afficianados argue that the line needs to be moved back further, from its current location of 19-ft, 9-in. from the basket to either the international 20-ft., 6-in. foot line or pros' most challenging 23-ft., 9-in. marker. What's more, if you teach your kids to foul in practice...
...return its senior studs, but plenty of talent will come back to the Palestra next year. Swingman Brian Grandieri, an All-Ivy Second Team selection this past season, will be back, along with guard Darren Smith, who Crimson fans might remember from his lights-out performance from three-point range at Lavietes this year. Plus, during warm-ups before their home meeting with Harvard last month, seemingly every Penn player could dunk, indicating quite a few real athletic players will be suiting up in blue and red next season...
Looking at schools that haven’t won a title in the past three years, Cornell is the name I hear most often as a potential contender for next year’s title. There is good reason for this, as the Big Red, who finished third in the league last season, bring back the top two rookies from the 2006-2007 campaign in Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale. Joining those two should be three-point stud Adam Gore—the Rookie of the Year in 2005-2006—who missed last season with a torn...