Calvin Wetzel
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Women's basketball ✏️🎙️📼 for @CBSSports / @SportsLine , @herhoopstats , and freelance | 🏐 @evollve | @betshewins | @ISURedbirds fan | 🏀 binge-watcher
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Caitlin Clark finished the season with more unassisted (and off the dribble) threes than all 1088 NCAA DI/II/III teams... other than Iowa
Caitlin Clark has made more unassisted 3s this year than 357 entire teams (from
@CBBAnalytics
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Big credit to Alysha Clark for making the necessary halftime adjustments last night after the Aces were down 9 at half
Switched to the single bun, Aces won the 2nd half by 16. Veteran leadership on display
(Shout out
@qwetz29
for bringing this in-depth analysis to my attention)
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Caitlin Clark has made more unassisted 3s this year than 357 entire teams (from
@CBBAnalytics
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WNBA preseason starts tomorrow (!!) so have to reshare this because I'm sure those questions are about to start floating around
the one change this year is ION games, and not actually positive those won't be on LP but kinda assuming so I guess it kinda falls under national TV
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The Aces used this play to tie the game against the Storm in that instant classic game 3 of last year's semis
Caitlin told Holly the first look was for a layup, that's what the Aces got with Jackie Young on the slip screen out of the stagger
Coach
@LisaBluder
said, "Indiana is such a good team, and we have so much respect for all their weapons." She added that the play they ran for the game-winner was a play that
@IowaWBB
got from watching the
@LVAces
this summer.
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Players with 30+ points, 2+ steals, 4+ blocks in a WNBA playoff game:
1. A'ja Wilson yesterday
2. A'ja Wilson the game before that
No one had ever done that and A'ja just did it twice in a row
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There have been 3 times in the
@herhoopstats
era (15 seasons) where a player had 28/9/5/3/1 in an NCAA tournament game
They are all three Paige Bueckers in this tournament
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No matter who you got as MVP, I don't think any discussion on it is complete without acknowledging that we are seeing three historic, unprecedented seasons at the same time
I’m looking back at past WNBA MVP winners, and man, in a bunch of years, any of this year’s three frontrunners would have taken the award. You could easily argue A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, and Alyssa Thomas are all having their best individual seasons in 2023. (via
@bball_ref
)
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And players are supposed to be ok with dudes like this having locker room access?
Reporter: 🫶
Caitlin Clark: "You like that?"
Reporter: "I like that you're here."
Caitlin: "Yeah, I do that at my family after every game.”
Reporter: "Start doing it to me and we'll get along just fine."
Caitlin: 😳
(via
@IndianaFever
/ YT)
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Clark is well under her scoring average because UConn is dictating that end of the floor
Bueckers is well under her scoring average because UConn is dictating *that* end of the floor
Not *letting* Clark take over and not *needing* Paige to take over. UConn basketball
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Chance to see Jalen Green (3rd overall recruit) and Nimari Burnett (top 25) tonight, but
@IlliniMBB
commit
@colehawk23
stole the show with this slam!
My only regret is that I didn't let the video roll longer--he did this exact same thing on the very next play! 💪
#JoinTheFight
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Never been a UConn guy but man Geno extending the press conference after it was supposed to end in order to take a question from the 🐐
@teampersley
is almost enough to make me a fan. Respect
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One of the most ridiculous win probability graphs you will ever see
Based on this, at no point in the first 39.5 minutes did Nebraska have above a 28% chance to win
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Already liked Paige and Aaliyah but man my respect for them is growing by the second during this press conference. Just unbelievable people
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The amount of people who didn't care about women's basketball a year or two ago who were hype for this game all day and now are actively engaged with it
And the fact that it's fully delivering and then some
What a time for the sport
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Had to do one with a lower minimum too just to show how hilariously good Paige Bueckers is at finishing (because as you know I'm extremely UConn biased)
Yes, she really shot 23-for-25 at the rim.
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Teaira McCowan no hesitation from 3...wtf?!?!?
I've seen enough, Aces and Liberty are toast
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If anyone's interested, here's a Google calendar for the WNBA season:
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Also not the first time they've used it to take the lead on the Sparks
Oh baby, that's old-school Minnesota. That's a McCarville-Whalen play, just run by Shepard and McBride.
#WNBA
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Seeing two players who started out at JUCO up there on a DI podium after leading their team to a championship and making All-Tournament team is EVERYTHING
If any young hoopers see this, it doesn't matter where you're at now, don't *ever* let anybody tell you you can't make it
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For the first time for
@RedbirdWBB
in at least a decade:
–every conference home game had 1000+ fans
–average attendance was over 1700
–over 20,000 fans showed up
Every prior season with higher attendance was basically Cirone era or 90s
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The first player in
@RedbirdWBB
history to be drafted by the WNBA
Paige Robinson just cemented her legacy as an Illinois State icon
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Such a terrific learning experience hanging out with
@oliviamiles06
and watching some film together
Absolutely brilliant point guard
Check out our full conversation here to see the game the way Olivia sees it through those dope goggles
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No matter what happens in the postseason, this team will live forever
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Marine Johannès, Julie Allemand, Iliana Rupert, Rui Machida, Han Xu ... it sorta feels like those international offensive skills are on the verge of exploding in the WNBA
But how new is that trend?
Took a look with
@jennhatfield1
for
@FiveThirtyEight
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The NCAA moved the women's 3-point line back this year
Took a look at how that impacted the game, for
@FiveThirtyEight
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NAVY TAKES DOWN THE ONE SEED IN THE PATRIOT LEAGUE AT THE BUZZER!!!
Man I love March
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Not gonna pretend I have any idea how this will translate to DI
But I don't think you can watch Grace Nelson and not get excited. 30ppg in 32-minute games is nuts at any level
(Paige Robinson played 1A in high school too and she did stuff like this in the MVC🤷♂️)
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Last year after the season
@drmataya
cooked up some graphics for the best shooters from each distance/zone
Decided to run these back
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Last night
@IowaWBB
shot 86.4% from inside the arc and held Southern to 15%
The Hawkeyes are the first team in the
@herhoopstats
era to outshoot its opponent by at least 70 percentage points from two
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Gotchu homie
someone please just make a video of aari mcdonald makes from this game
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WNBA stars 🤝 Redbird starters
@RedbirdWBB
lineups for the
#NGWSD
game ft. Courtney Vandersloot, Allie Quigley, Napheesa Collier, Aliyah Boston, Alana Beard
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Holy *$#*@$# look at the names on this list
FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY👏
Mary Crompton has been named a First Team Academic All-American!
#TogetherWeWill
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We gotta start talking about the history being made at Little Rock
Whole team is 18-of-120 from 3 this year
Would be the worst 3P% in the
@herhoopstats
era and the first to make less than a 3 per game
And yet, at 15-1 in OVC, they are about to win an outright championship
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Birds are absolutely on one right now
And might be making some history in the process
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Gabbie was 0-1 because they guarded her like this because she was 23-46 from three in the postseason which made it easier for Clark to cook all her defenders on straight line drives
She absolutely impacted this game
@cwetzel31
I personally do not put Gabbie Marshall’s zero point performance on 0-1 shooting at the same level as MJ flu game but it was a nice win.
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There's a reason they're my two favorite shooters in the country
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Made it across the city through this crazy maze of a building and can confirm that a top 10 Division I basketball team playing here is weird asf
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Still see a lot of questions about how/where to watch WNBA games and what is/isn't on League Pass, so here's this
If you answer yes at any point then it's blacked out on League Pass
I'm like 97% sure this is 100% correct haha, my bad if there's some exception I missed
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Tonight was the highest attendance at home for
@RedbirdWBB
in a non-education day game in a decade!
2400+ fans, last time hitting that number was February 10 2013 against Creighton
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After
@lmaggett11
put up this 🔥🔥🔥 line last night for the
@ISURedbirds
, I got curious & did some digging
TeTe Magget is averaging 19 pts, 7.5 rebounds & 5.3 assists against DI competition this year
Here's a list of other DI players averaging 19/7/5:
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(Okay, list done)
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Here's a Google calendar for the 2021
@WNBA
schedule.
I'll try to update these if/when games change & when the TV info comes out. And I'm sure I made a mistake somewhere, so feel free to let me know if you find one!
Individual team calendars in thread⤵️
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How fun would sports be if we all spectated with the carefree exuberance of a small child?
@RedbirdWBB
#BackTheBirds
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Actual bets offered at sportsbooks that don't post women's college basketball:
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In her junior season, Kate Bullman has entered the top 25 in
@ValleyHoops
history in blocks
Some numbers behind the legend:
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A lot of fun watching the
@RedbirdWBB
newcomers today, but to start with
@katebullman33
...this ability to run the floor at that length is, um, tantalizing.
(Oh and she's the first player in the country this year to have 9+ boards and 3+ blocks in under 19 minutes😮)
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Giving BloNo Pizza Co some free advertising here because they invested in women 🔥😍
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Big ups to
@drmataya
and
@CBBAnalytics
for helping highlight the best shooters by distance from this past college season
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I'm no graphic designer, but hopefully this is useful for some people to go along with Dano's really helpful scenarios
Who the 7 and 8 seeds will be based on the winners of the three relevant games Sunday
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Paige Robinson:
✅ The first ever Redbird taken in the
#WNBADraft
✅ The first player to come from Division II to be drafted in the WNBA since 2010
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This answer from
@mcrompton23
is the most humble and quintessential Mary thing possible
But also to whoever always asks her that, it might be time to start saying conference instead of school
Like Gabi Haack actually within reach 👀
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Expanded my horizons and wrote something non-basketball related...
No shade to anyone else I've interviewed or written about before, but not sure I've had as much fun as I did getting to know
@kenkendee
! She's a ⭐
Here's her amazing story ⤵️
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No. 32 Simone Goods career averages:
15.5 points
7.0 rebounds
1.0 assists
.501 FG%
No. 32 Kate Bullman in this game:
16 points
7 rebounds
1 assist
.500 FG%
I think Simone was with us today ❤️
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A lot of people commenting on the end of this video where Jaz does the John Cena you can't see me
Should be noted that they were using that as a signal for a defensive play call
This wasn't Jaz trying to talk trash to Caitlin
(But if it had been that, would've been sick lol)
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Among all the other weird ish that made no sense in the WNBA today, the highest and lowest foul total of the season both happened today
LV/NY: 15 fouls
Chi/Dal: 54 fouls
before today there had been 161 games, all between 23 and 51 fouls
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That 🔥 Gen Bryant ➡️ Camille Hobby connection is back
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These are gonna be the four greatest regular season basketball games the sport has ever seen
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There was a no hitter tonight and the lead SportsCenter story (correctly) is women's basketball
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Find you someone who chases after you the way
@sarah_kushh
chases after volleyballs that are coming down miles out of bounds
@RedbirdVB
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More WBB progress -- this is the first time in any season I have ever seen odds for WNBA Rookie of the Year
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Gotta shout out my brother
@qwetz29
and the
@SpikeSquad
for big time support of
@IlliniVBall
!
Chartering a plane to Texas is true commitment. Respect.
Good stuff from
@adzilis
at the
@news_gazette
on it⤵️
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They literally have steals props for 292 men's players, including mid-majors in the NIT
and there are main sportsbooks that haven't even posted game lines at all for the first round of the women's NCAA Tournament
cut the BS and figure it out
There's a huge opportunity here for the sports betting industry. Not sure why they haven't jumped on it yet with both feet.
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I really hope everyone appreciates the magnitude of what we just witnessed
Every single coach and player on the Iowa Hawkeyes just put on as good of a performance that you will ever see in any sport
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Spotted in Phoenix ahead of the Mercury game. Amazing vibes 😄
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Now that
@mcrompton23
is officially the most prolific shooter to ever put on an Illinois State uniform, had to take a look back at some of my all time favorite threes from MC3's
@RedbirdWBB
career
🐐🐐🐐
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The Valley's leading scorer has faced Terrion Moore for eight quarters this year.
She's gotten a bucket in two of them.
Give
@TMTH_T
the
@ValleyHoops
defensive player of the year already. 🔒🔒🔒
BIRDS WIN! BIRDS WIN! BIRDS WIN!
ISU defeats Bradley on the road, 79-59, to sweep the series over the Braves for the first time since the 2011-12 season!
#BackTheBirds
//
#TogetherWeWill
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Just today I filmed a Division I bball game on IG live bc there was no stream anywhere, all while the PA guy counted down seconds bc the shot clock didn't work, & now I'm watching the No. 6 team in the nation play in a big meeting room
Women's basketball deserves so much better
Made it across the city through this crazy maze of a building and can confirm that a top 10 Division I basketball team playing here is weird asf
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In case it comes up for whatever reason, here are the players who have dropped 40 on South Carolina in the
@herhoopstats
era
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Been jumping on other people's podcasts a lot lately, so I guess it was time to have my own 🤷♂️
Really fired up to team up with Crina! She's such a great friend and I've always loved following her content, now I get to be part of it!
so! excited to say that
@cwetzel31
& I are starting up a WBB pod over at
@herhoopstats
!!!!!!!!! it's called "Coast to Coast" so make sure your eyes and ears stay glued to that Her Hoop Stats feed :)
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Since
@RedbirdWBB
plays basketball tonight (kinda), feels like a good time to remind the world that
@katebullman33
is better than everyone else at playing defense
Every reason why⤵️
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Another one that didn't quite make the cut:
@katebullman33
is the only BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER in the Her Hoop Stats database with the full stat line (15p/13r/3a/3s/6b/3threes)
As in, never in DI since at least 09-10, never in D2/3 since at least 17-18, and never in WNBA history
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Was recently looking for something else & came across the fact that
@paiigesaylor
(at 5'5") was 22nd in D1 in 2pt% last year.
That seemed insanely impressive, so I dug into all 5 years of
@herhoopstats
data to see just how good it is.
Answer: VERY
Hijakced the HHS leaderboard:
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DI basketball coaches are so intelligent. Great chess match at the end of the half between Stanford & Missouri St yesterday
First, here's Stanford running their "thumbs up" set out of the chin series in the 2nd rnd, ending w/ Ashten Prechtel hitting a 3 out of an elevator screen
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After Binghamton's loss to Miami, there are 11 unbeaten teams left.
Nine are from the Power 5, and one is UConn.
That leaves
@RamblersWBB
as the lone remaining undefeated mid-major!
Congratulations
@LoyolaRamblers
. You are alone.
#OnwardLU
#TurnTheShip
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Freshmen in the
@herhoopstats
era to make the Elite Eight averaging at least 18 points/6rebounds/1 three in the tournament:
2013 Breanna Stewart
2021 Paige Bueckers
and, if she maintains her numbers
2023 Cotie McMahon
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Adia Barnes has a challenger in the badass mom energy department
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They told Vic Schaefer the 3-point lines were different and he was like whatever we don't use those anyway
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You know I've had fun this year repping Redbird players on game days
Tomorrow, with a chance to do something special, it's time to honor someone new....
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Last time we saw a fully healthy
@mcrompton23
she was top 3 in the country in 3p%
This time she's coming for the record
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In a recent press conference, JuJu said she's trying to get
@mcrompton23
more shots
Love this play from her yesterday
It's easy to just say stuff that sounds good in those pressers, but
@Jujujuju_22
is💯backing it up on the court
Just veteran leadership & high-IQ basketball
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Wait till you hear what fans of the women's game have to do
@B2theBaird
The point is you have to pay 5 bucks and download a new streaming service to watch a premiere college basketball matchup on a Friday night.
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New addition to my wall courtesy of my guy
@alexewarren
!
He's been getting into digital art lately & made me this dope canvas of mountains from the five win probability graphs of
@RedbirdWBB
's five March games this year
You can see the MVC title game in the first mountain range
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2021 NCAA National Player of the Year Paige is transferring to Illinois State!
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Here are the four teams that have been ranked No. 2 at some point this season (h/t
@WBBTimeline
)
South Carolina has beaten all of them
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I could write a whole book about this game, and maybe I will at some point
But for now I'll just say that watching all 40 minutes of this game should be required in order to have an MVC awards vote
Not 1️⃣, not 2️⃣ but 1️⃣0️⃣ straight for the Redbirds.
final score presented by Toyota
#TogetherWeWill
//
#Play4Kay
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This offseason, 75 players transferred from a mid-major to a power conference school
At
@herhoopstats
, my top 15:
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Yo my bad I got hungry and the pancakes looked too delicious
Ok now
@DoorDash
I’m really getting tired of y’all. This don’t make no sense. Explain to me how my order is approaching THEN running behind THEN cancelled!!!!
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I know a bunch of you weren't able to witness history because of the lack of a broadcast today
This accomplishment deserves SOOOO much more than this awful video but it's the best I got for now so here you go
The moment
@mcrompton23
tied and broke the
@RedbirdWBB
3-point record
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