Word: three-pointer
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...sports, yet every March, and throughout the 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...
...sharp-shooting guard made her biggest impact down the stretch, pushing the already-improbable upset even further out of Harvard’s reach. The three-year captain came alive in the second half, draining seemingly every perimeter jumper that came her way from the packed-in paint. Doron scored nine straight Maryland points in the middle of the second half, capping the run with a three-pointer that gave the Terrapins a 54-30 lead with 14:14 to play. Harvard guard Emily Tay matched Doron shot-for-shot after the break, pouring in 14 second-half points...
...first half (one assist, two points on 1-of-4 shooting), the sophomore point guard paced the Crimson offense in the final twenty minutes, finishing with 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting to go along with a season-high seven assists, three rebounds and two steals. Three of his six field goals were three-pointers. “He was terrific,” Sullivan said. “To be honest, we kind of got on him a little bit there at halftime. “He had a rough first half, especially on the defensive...
...both three-point makes and percentage. But with the game’s outcome in the balance, Cornell leading 71-68 with 4:14 to play, the visitors mounted a stunning insurgency, reeling off three-point plays on four of their next five possessions to pull ahead for good.Sophomore point guard Drew Housman tied the game and silenced the crowd by nailing a three off a feed from freshman guard Jeremy Lin. After a rare long-distance miss from Big Red assassin Ryan Wittman, Goffredo followed with his seventh—and most crucial—three-pointer...
...good shooter.“[Van Horne] is a three-point shooter,” Delaney-Smith said. “The [scouting report] was to not let her have open threes, so that was just a mental breakdown.”Yale’s long-range shooters cooled down in the second half, but with six minutes remaining, Harvard’s lead was still only five. But in the next couple of minutes, a steal and layup by junior guard Lindsay Hallion, paired with a Finelli three-pointer, pushed Harvard’s lead back...