D-3 Grinnell attempts NCAA record 111 shots from 3

[crawfords corner]

Makes 40 of them.

Broke Troy's record of 109.


We all can remember that time Jack Taylor scored 138 points in a game.

Grinnell attempts NCAA record 111 3-point shots

Grinnell College, a small Division III program in Iowa, set an NCAA men's basketball record for 3-point attempts with 111 shots from beyond the arc in the school's 124-67 victory over Emmaus Bible College on Thursday.

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[UK90]

Not impressed. Each year Grinnell schedules these tiny little Bible schools in glorified exhibitions just so that they can get publicity trying to set these sort of records. Those games are an utter farce.

 

[wildcatsboston1984]

Not impressed. Each year Grinnell schedules these tiny little Bible schools in glorified exhibitions just so that they can get publicity trying to set these sort of records. Those games are an utter farce.

Grinnell is like a pro wrestler who has one lame gimmick and can't do anything else.

 

[fastpaste101]

Yeah but can they score off an inbound play?

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Yeah but can they score off an inbound play?

As long as it’s from THREE

 

[Allcats08]

Half this board will want us to go after their coach now

 

[SaltyCat22]

Daffy Duck. 21st century basketball. Hire the coach or Oats!

 

[Jamal Mercer]

That box score is nuts. 19 players saw minutes for Grinnel??

That’s 3 separate teams/rotations for Cal.

 

[UK90]

Grinnell didn’t attempt a single two point shot the entire game, only threes. Only reason they scheduled this game was to try to set a record for most threes.

They do this each year, schedule some unknown little Bible school full of pasty fat kids that couldn’t make a HS team in pursuit of wacky publicity-grabbing stats. They’re making a farce of the record books by pulling these silly stunts.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Sounds like they are a satanic school.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

Sounds like they are a satanic school.

 

[wildcatsboston1984]

That box score is nuts. 19 players saw minutes for Grinnel??

That’s 3 separate teams/rotations for Cal.

They run a full court press the whole game and have a million possessions. And they literally run like five-man units for most of the game. Starting unit will come out at the first media timeout, next five-man unit will rotate in, then the third unit comes in at the next media timeout, and the starters come back in after that. Doesn't ALWAYS work out like that, but that is the goal.

If you break their press, they still pressure the hell out of you in the half court. Their defensive philosophy is completely predicated on creating turnovers. If you don't turnover the ball after like 15-20 seconds, they'll just give you a layup and send players back on offense before you can even score so they can get the ball back and hoist up a three in 10-15 seconds. That's why you frequently see Grinnell opponents with normally fairly low # three point attempts. Doesn't always work out like that, poorly coached teams will still continue to hoist up their season average from three, but the teams that have the most success significantly cut down on their three point attempts.

It can be a really hellacious defense to go up against if someone is shaky with the ball or doesn't mark smart decisions. Even then a team is lucky to walk out the game without 20+ turnovers, and a team committing 30+ turnovers is a common sight

I used to work at a school in a conference that had another team running the same system (which is called The System, by the way), though they slightly modified it defensively because the coach didn't want to do the whole just willing give up a layup thing. One school had a backup PG that was like a deer in the headlights against it, so the starter ended up playing 38 minutes, which is like playing 50+ minutes compared to a normal padced college game. He got the one two-minute break when the backup turned it over every time he touched the ball - and that break he got was after the first media timeout - and the only other breaks he got was timeouts and halftime.