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10-04-2016, 04:21 AM
Former Kansas player hits $10,000 half-court shot for the second year in a row
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Brennan Brechard, director of basketball operations at the University of Kansas, drained a half-court shot and head coach Bill Self wrote a $10,000 check.
Alone, that feat is impressive.*
What's even more incredible, though, was that it happened for the second year in a row.*
SEE ALSO: This NBA player's giant hands make a regulation basketball look puny (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/joel-embiid-hands/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
At Kansas' annual preseason event, two students are randomly chosen from the crowd for a chance to win $10,000 from Self. They can either take the shot themselves, or select someone else. *Sophomore Jordan Stiers clearly liked the look of Brechard's shot last year (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/kansas-student-wins-10k-halfcourt-shot), and selected the former Kansas player. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/kansas-basketball-bill-self-halfcourt-shot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Brennan Brechard, director of basketball operations at the University of Kansas, drained a half-court shot and head coach Bill Self wrote a $10,000 check.
Alone, that feat is impressive.*
What's even more incredible, though, was that it happened for the second year in a row.*
SEE ALSO: This NBA player's giant hands make a regulation basketball look puny (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/joel-embiid-hands/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
At Kansas' annual preseason event, two students are randomly chosen from the crowd for a chance to win $10,000 from Self. They can either take the shot themselves, or select someone else. *Sophomore Jordan Stiers clearly liked the look of Brechard's shot last year (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/kansas-student-wins-10k-halfcourt-shot), and selected the former Kansas player. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/kansas-basketball-bill-self-halfcourt-shot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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