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Article: FREE THROWS KEEP FALLING FOR MUSKETEERS.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 28, 1997
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Byline: Kathy Orton Post staff reporter
Free throws are supposed to be the easiest points to earn in basketball.
A player has 10 seconds to shoot the ball 15 feet with no defenders in his face.
Yet for many players, a 360-degree reverse dunk is an easier shot to make than a free throw.
Not so for the Xavier University men's basketball team. The Musketeers are shooting an impressive 83 percent from the free throw line.
''I thought for 2 1/2 games, we've shot free throws about as well as we've ever shot them around here,'' XU coach Skip Prosser said. ''Then we didn't shoot them as well in the second half (of the Northeast ...