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Valparaiso's Jarryd Loyd launches a free throw late in the Crusaders' game against Butler on Feb. 5. The shot fell well short.(PHOTO) (ANDY LAVALLEY/POST-TRIBUNE)

Homer Drew was at the tail end of another long and languid lament about his team's inability to make free throws when he was hit with a simple question. Could you do any better?

Drew smiled, took a few steps to his left, snatched a basketball out of the hands of freshman Benjamin Fumey and aligned his feet along the charity stripe.

First shot rimmed out. Second one, too.

"Warmups," he said before he made a quick stretch and put down the practice schedule he was ...

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