{"id":544,"date":"2004-03-04T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/how-many-points-for-a-three-pointer\/"},"modified":"2004-03-04T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T21:16:00","slug":"how-many-points-for-a-three-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/04\/how-many-points-for-a-three-pointer\/","title":{"rendered":"How many points for a three-pointer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe my final exams are too hard, after all.  At the University of Georgia, former assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. (son of head coach Jim Harrick Sr.) taught a course in 2001 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/sports\/8099903.htm\">Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball<\/a>.  There was only one exam, including questions along the lines of &#8220;How many halves are in a college basketball game?&#8221; and &#8220;In your opinion, who is the best Division I assistant coach in the country?&#8221;  (Correct answer: C, Jim Harrick Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>The test in its entirety is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/dailynews\/sports\/8101804.htm\">here<\/a>.  Everyone in the class got an A.  Both coaches recently lost their jobs following an NCAA investigation of multiple rule violations.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe my final exams are too hard, after all. At the University of Georgia, former assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. (son of head coach Jim Harrick Sr.) taught a course in 2001 on Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball. There was only one exam, including questions along the lines of &#8220;How many halves are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}