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unusual facts about Free throw


Free throw

While this allows the leading team to shoot free throws and increase their lead, it also stops the clock, similar to a time out in football (in basketball, a time out may only be called by a team with possession of the ball).



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1989 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

Bridgette Gordon scored 17 points from the free throw line in the East Regional Final between Tennessee and Long Beach state, the most ever scored in an NCAA Tournament game.

50–40–90 club

While the significant number is the same for the two sports, a baseball player with a batting average of .300 is referred to as a "three hundred hitter" and not a "30% hitter", a basketball player shooting .900 on free-throws will be referred to as a "90% free-throw shooter", not a "nine-hundred shooter".

Korea national basketball team

Korea was also a team that had a strong back court with Kim Seung-Hyun (179 cm), Yang Dong-geun (182 cm), Kim Dong-Woo (198 cm), and Kim Jin-Soo (205 cm), who guaranteed that the team was in the tournaments top-3 in free throw percentage (70.6) and assists per game (11.5).

Lee Walton

For example, in 2004 to 2005 Walton organized a free throw contest with basketball player Shaquille O'Neal; for every free throw by O'Neal, Walton attempted one, hoping to beat O'Neal's average.

Nalan Ramazanoğlu

She was the team leader in free-throw average with 88.9% and second in three-point shot average with 39.2% (after Nicole Powell with 42.3%) in 2005–06 season.