free throw

April 2, 2018

Strategies to improve your free-throw shooting

Using a strategy that employs innovative free-throw shooting drills dramatically improved my team’s foul shooting over a number of seasons. After using these strategies, our team’s free-throw shooting percentage was 7 percent higher than in any o...


July 6, 2017

Don Meyer’s shooting games and free-throw drills

Don Meyer, the NCAA's winningest all-time men's basketball coach, loved to keep his practices simple in nature. He shared his favorite six shooting competitions (with six free-throw-shooting games to follow) that he used at practices to help develop ...


March 26, 2017

Former world-record holder for consecutive free throws dies at 94

Dr. Tom Amberry, who 24 years ago set a world record by making 2,750 consecutive free throws, has died. He was 94. [caption id="attachment_8848" align="alignright" width="368"] Screenshot via YouTube[/caption] Amberry, a North Dakota native, played...


September 19, 2016

11 myths about free-throw shooting

College teams average about 68 percent, and professional players are all the way up to a whopping 72 percent. That means that there is only about a 7-percent difference between a highly paid professional and the teenager down the street who plays fo...