OT: Grinnell College attempts 111 3s in a game

Apparently, they are not acquainted with Iowan, Brian Ferentz.

If you can shoot 36% from 3, then keep shooting.  

I feel like to count as an NCAA record it should be against an NCAA team, not some random bible college that is a member of the Midwest Christian College Conference 

I don't think many of their records are terribly impressive given the relative competition level

We played Grinnell in football and it's one thing to play mediocre D3 competition. But these bible colleges are just horrible teams. We were terrible at football and beat the crap out of them

*Remembers 1990 tourney game against Loyola Marymount*

*shudders*

In the 90s I was a pretty solid high school player (All City with all kinds of D2 & D3 opportunities) that was sometimes known to attempt 15 3's in a single game, which was often more than the entire team.

How the hell did I not know about Grinnell?  Missed my time.  

I think I took 111 3-pointers during a pickup game once. I still lost. That 12 year old was good!!!

https://pioneers.grinnell.edu/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2022-23/emmaus-bible-college/boxscore/18700

They attempted no 2 point baskets!

ia, I’ve been to Grinnell.  It’s a great school - one of the strongest Liberal Arts colleges in the Midwest and country.  Great facilities for a school of that size.

And, 3’s is their strategy in hoops.

HEY - Grinnell is the "Jewel of the Prairie"!  Great little small town, roughly 40 mins to Des Moines, about the same to Iowa City/Cedar Rapids. There are many more places in Iowa that are more "middle of nowhere" than Grinnell. It's right on I-80!  Excellent school, too!

It was Troy that scored 258

Apparently they tried every single open shot in the entire game from 3.

I remember when Southern beat Champion Baptist about 10 years ago by more than 100, that a vast amount of Champion players didn’t even play on a HS team.

I have seen more talented public middle schools than some of these Bible colleges 

Not to get too political, but.. if you think attempting 111 three pointers is interesting.  Visit Iowa the week before the Presidential Caucuses take place.

In the middle of Iowa and middle of nowhere 

Redundant 

Can't take 112?  What a bunch of slackers.

Grinnell has a fascinating connection to the history of silicon valley thanks to Robert Noyce (among others): https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyce.html

I’m kicking someone on Grinnell in the nuts on a 3 attempt if I was on the other team. 

Must be lots of fun to watch.

imagine if they made them all

Little known fun fact:

Glen Rice had a fling with Sarah Palin while at the Great Alaska Shootout.

Further solidifying his reputation of someone known to bang 3s.

Ill be here all week.

you could fill bursley like 5 times with the total number of students at the college they beat.

The way I remember this originating...

Grinnell did not have a winning season in the 70s or 80s. The head coach decided they needed to do something different from everyone else, and tried a fairly extreme (well, that's what he thought at the time) uptempo offense. Fatigue was a problem, the players didn't like it, they voted to slow things down. So the next year they tried t use the whole clock every possession (it was 45 seconds back then). That didn't work either.

The next year he put it to a vote. (1) crank things up to an even more extreme tempo, or (2) never vote again. They went with (1); the coach came up with a plan:

• To avoid fatigue he split the team into three groups of five who would substitute like hockey lines. One group's on the court, another is waiting at the scorer's table, the third has just come off and is sitting on the bench.
• At least half of their shots (usually more) would be from three. The ideal possession is two passes and a shot, with people crashing the boards and often passing back to the three point line if they get an offensive rebound. If they give up a fast break the other way they don't care, as long as they don't give up any threes. Whoever's back defends the three point line.
• The weirdest thing to me--I certainly never played for anyone that thought about this, but who knows, maybe it's caught on now?--is that they practice taking the ball out of the basket after a made shot. Catch it as quickly as you can coming out of the net, step out of bounds and immediately pivot to throw a long chest pass to players waiting at predesignated spots. Second pass is to the three point line, shot goes up, crash the boards. Over and over, 60-70 times a half. Defense is a maniacal press, turnover or layup, just no threes. You're coming out at the next dead ball so there's no reason to ever lift the pedal from the floor.

Ultimately, to the extent it works it relies on exhausting the opponent, who probably doesn't have 15 players ready to run hockey shifts. I've seen them play a few times (Chicago was in the MWC when I was there) and everyone's already holding their shorts five minutes in. By halftime it looks like the end of a cross country race. I didn't realize how important that was to their system until ESPN put one of their games on TV...and it didn't work at all. The media time outs were enough time for the other team to recover, and they were never really able to get on a run.