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Steady Co-Captain Keith Webster, who scored 10 points and handed out six assists, hit two more three-point baskets last night and is now 15-for-34 from three-point range on the season...
...Three-point baskets: Toomey, 1; Webster, 2; Evers, 1. Fouled out: None. Assists: Harvard 21 (Duncan, 7), Brandeis 4 (Power, 3). Turnovers: Harvard 24, Brandeis 22. Rebounds: Harvard 42 (Mohler, 7), Brandeis 35 (Glover, 8). Brandeis 25-38--63 Harvard...
...argument against the 19-ft., 9-in. distance is straight-forward: it is simply too short. Adopting the professional circuit's varying 22 to 24-ft. three-point range would have represented a much more sensible action on the part of the NCAA rules committee...
...person who is not too happy about the new regulation is Harvard men's basketball Coach Pete Roby. That's not surprising, considering that opponents in each of the hoopsters' first two contests this season hit three-point buckets at the halftime buzzer--moral victories in themselves...
Abolishing the three-point shot in college basktball after this season would be an unnecessary loss for both the players and the fans, brought on solely by the NCAA's decision to draw the arc at an unreasonably short distance...