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basketball

noun as in team sport

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At the end of a historically dominant week that saw records toppled and the whole of women’s college basketball put on early notice, JuJu Watkins pulled up from behind the arc in Friday’s game and bricked.

Along the way, Watkins would once again remind of the rarefied air she already occupies in women’s basketball.

On the basketball court, he was a rebounding power forward who relied on pure athleticism to score in transition as a sophomore on Sheldon’s state runner-up team.

As if Herbert playing all three sports wasn’t impressive enough, former Sheldon basketball coach Daniel Clark emphasized the way the teenager improved at all three despite minimal offseason training as he bounced between seasons.

Popovich was an assistant coach when a 19-year-old James was a player on the U.S. men’s basketball team that won bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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