Trivia Questions about the 3 Pt. Shot.

[wildbill2u]

What major college coach is credited with the first use of the three point shot in a college game? What were the teams and when? He later wrote a book about basketball in which the 3pt shot was extensively analyzed and advocated.

I will supply the answers after the first page of losers is racked up. :wakeup

[gospursgojas]

I know Chris Ford made the first NBA 3pt shot. Do I win a car?

[wildbill2u]

I know Chris Ford made the first NBA 3pt shot. Do I win a car?

Nope. This about the first College game and the coach. Here is a hint. He won a NCAA championship.

[widowmaker]

Gregg popobitch

[UZER]

I know Chris Ford made the first NBA 3pt shot. Do I win a car?

That's a random fact I also know. I remember it from his basketball card coaching card. :lol

[GSH]

I remember this, but not who it was. It wasn't that shitty 19-foot 3P line that the NCAA adopted IIRC.

[sasaint]

What major college coach is credited with the first use of the three point shot in a college game? What were the teams and when? He later wrote a book about basketball in which the 3pt shot was extensively analyzed and advocated.

I will supply the answers after the first page of losers is racked up. :wakeup

Your question led to some interesting research. :toast I learned something. Thanks!

[SpursforSix]

What major college coach is credited with the first use of the three point shot in a college game? What were the teams and when? He later wrote a book about basketball in which the 3pt shot was extensively analyzed and advocated.

I will supply the answers after the first page of losers is racked up. :wakeup

1) Pegasus Rasterclack.
2) Birmingham Potardz vs. the Sabine Pubnuggets

[rastaspur]

Jackie moon. My best guess

[Play Boban]

:lol

[gospursgojas]

That's a random fact I also know. I remember it from his basketball card coaching card. :lol

Ha! Exactly where I learned it from and remember it from too.

[wildbill2u]

Still no correct answers. He was a legendary West Coast coach before his 3pt experiment at another school.

[SpursforSix]

Still no correct answers. He was a legendary West Coast coach before his 3pt experiment at another school.

ooooooohhhhhh...

Dingus Magillicutty

[GSH]

The first college player to shoot one was Ronnie Carr with Western Carolina, in 1980, and it was a 22-foot 3P line, not the shitty 19'9" line that the NCAA implemented in 1986. That's the one I was thinking of. I don't have a clue who the hell you're talking about.

[james evans]

i was thinking Valvano lol

[sasaint]

What major college coach is credited with the first use of the three point shot in a college game? What were the teams and when? He later wrote a book about basketball in which the 3pt shot was extensively analyzed and advocated.

I will supply the answers after the first page of losers is racked up. :wakeup,

I thought you were driving us to the experimental game in 1945 between Fordham and Columbia...

[TampaDude]

The NCAA's Southern Conference became the first collegiate conference to use the three-point rule, adopting a 22-foot (6.71 m) line for the 1980–81 season. Ronnie Carr of Western Carolina University was the first to score a three-point field goal in college basketball history on November 29, 1980.

[wildbill2u]

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I thought you were driving us to the experimental game in 1945 between Fordham and Columbia...

DING DING DING. WE have a partial winner. The coaches name was Howard Hobson who won the very first NCAA championship tournament as coach of the University of Oregon Ducks. He took a year off to get at PHD at Columbia and introduced the 3 pt shot in the 1945 game between Columbia and Fordam. Columbia made 11 3 pt shots and Fordam made 9. Columbia won 73-58. for those of you who might be intested in further reports of the game and the reaction by the New York press, go to : Columbia Magazine 2017 http//magazine.columbia.edu/college-walk/spring2017/long-shot


Hobson featured the 3 pt shot in his PHD thesis while at Columbia and that is what led him to get the other team to agree to a change of rules. Later he turned it into a book called Scientific Basketball in 1949. Hobson advocated for the 3 pt shot all his life, saying 'The long shot is the most spectacular play in basketball'.

And so it turned out to be. Hobson died in 1991 long after seeing his innovation adopted by virtually every basketball organization in the world.

[Play Boban]

:wakeup

[SpursforSix]

Was it Pee Pee the Kidnapper?

[Canyonero]

I thought it was D'Antoni.