Doesn't help either that Grinell had 35 fouls which lead to 41 of 50 FTs.
Either way a
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--- "skywaker9 <jarvisd@...>" <jarvisd@...> wrote:
> Given Grinnell's recent publicity rush, I thought I'd post this:
>
> I am a current student at Grinnell. Let me explain the system to
> you. On
> offense, Grinnell takes a shot, either a 3 or a layup, within 10
> seconds. We
> try to get 1/3 of our misses as offensive rebounds. We then press
> and if our
> opponents break the press, they get an easy layup. We also
> substitute in our
> entire lineup every minute or so. This results in a largely
> increased number
> of posessions in the game, making it possible to score that many
> points. This
> also works because we are in a relatively weak conference, a
> conference that
> has never advanced beyond the 2nd round of the NCAA D3 basketball
> tournament.
> As to tonight's game, I was there, and although we lost badly, I
> wasn't
> disappointed. Do you want to know why? This is becasue all of
> Drake's team
> is on scholarships and Grinnell, as a D3 school, does not offer
> atheltic
> scholarships to any athletes. All this game proves is that D1
> athletics is
> much, much better than D3. In addition, Grinnell prides itself on its
> academics, not its athletics, being ranked in the top 15 of National
> Liberal
> Arts colleges. It is also the week before finals, which at Grinnell
> is
> referred to as hell week, and athletes get no break on anything.
>
>
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