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The oldest usage of the phrase in specific reference to college basketball was used by Dick Dunkel of The Charlotte News, who used "blue bloods" in his men's basketball rating system. [3] During the 1950s, the Associated Press (AP) and Cincinnati Enquirer used the phrase in a casual sense, describing teams ranked near the top of the AP poll .
References 0–9 2-for-1 A strategy used within the last minute of a period or quarter, in which the team with possession times its shot to ensure that it will regain possession with enough time to shoot again before time runs out. Applicable in competitions that use a shot clock (all except NFHS in most US states). 3-and-D Any player, typically not a star, who specializes mainly in three ...
Basketball: An all-out effort to exert pressure. In basketball, full-court press is an aggressive defence strategy in which the defenders put pressure on the opposing team over the entire court, trying to disrupt their dribbling and passing. It was widely used in this sense beginning in the late 1940s.
Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg. The NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, which takes over TV during its run, is taking over Friday night on CBS for the second week in a row.
Implications of the blue blood system. Fallica said the blue blood title is more of a status symbol than anything, but the label, as arbitrary as it seems to be, still holds power. Blue bloods get ...
Men's college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025, the schools announced Monday. The first meeting will be Nov. 8 ...
Blue Blood, novel by Edward Conlon (born 1965), New York police officer and author; Blue Blood, a play by Georgia Douglas Johnson; Blue Blood and Mutiny, a 2007 book about bank Morgan Stanley; Blue Bloods (novel series), a series of vampire novels by Melissa de la Cruz, and the first book in the series
The Owls, coming off the program's first Final Four appearance, will face the Tar Heels Oct. 21 and UCF one week later at FAU Arena in closed practices.