[NU Sports] NU-PSU

[Evan Bradley]

At Georgetown games, they do the one with kids in big uniforms. 
Unfortunately, at the game I was at, neither kid was able to throw the
ball high enough to reach the rim while wearing the big shoes.


On 1/13/06, Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net> wrote:
> John Labbe wrote:
>
> > As for the halftime contests:  The kid shooting shots of consecutively
> > greater distance with a 1 minute clock is a good contest and a
> > consistent crowd pleaser.  That's probably why it's the only event
> > that's lasted game after game (although I don't know what a kid will
> > do with a night at the Orrington Hotel).
>
> They have what sounds like a similar contest at UCLA games at Pauley
> Pavilion.  Three differerent students are selected each game to try to
> make a lay-up, a free throw, a 3-point shot and a half court shot -- all
> within 30 seconds.  If someone makes all four shots, school tuition is
> covered for an entire school year.  At Thursday night's game against
> Washington State, I saw one guy make the first three shots within the
> first 13 seconds.  So, he then had time to take two half court shots,
> one of which came very, very close.  I can't remember what they gave him
> as a consolation prize -- it may have also been a night at the Orrington
> Hotel.   :)      --  Jim B.
>
>
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Evan Bradley
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