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Pearl Moore Didn’t Need A 3-Point Line To Dominate

Pearl Moore scored 3,884 points for Francis Marion College, near her native Florence, South Carolina, and another 177 points during one semester at Anderson Junior College. She averaged over 30 points a game from 1976 through 1979. In a single game in 1978, she scored 60 — a collegiate record at the time. All before […]

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How Shot-Tracking Is Changing The Way Basketball Players Fix Their Game

Partway through the 2018-19 season, just months before his Toronto Raptors would go on to win the franchise’s first NBA title, coach Nick Nurse had a problem. Kyle Lowry, Nurse’s All-Star point guard, was in a shooting slump — and no one could figure out why. Nurse, an analytics-driven coach who also ran dedicated shooting […]

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College Students Don’t Like How The NCAA Treats Student-Athletes

The NCAA faced a moment of reckoning this spring when Oregon women’s basketball player Sedona Prince shared a video showing that, although there was ample space for a weight room at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, the NCAA had only given the women a tiny fraction of the equipment it had provided the men. That […]

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Mike Krzyzewski Became The GOAT By Being The Ultimate Chameleon

The winningest college basketball coach of all time — and perhaps the only person capable of getting students to willingly downsize from dorm rooms — will have a farewell tour. Duke head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Wednesday that he will retire after the 2021-22 season. Associate head coach Jon Scheyer, a former player who […]

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Baylor’s Slow-Motion Knockdown

The most-desired matchup in men’s college basketball of the past two seasons ultimately proved to be a wire-to-wire act. Baylor toppled Gonzaga 86-70 on Monday night to earn the first national championship in program history. As a result, Gonzaga’s dreams of becoming the first team since Bob Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers in 1976 to complete an […]

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