The Maxpreps website reports the Dons have collected 1500 points with one more game to play in their 2019-2020 season.
FACT: The Frosh team is 9-2 in league and holding on to the first place position.
The Dons traveled to College Park on Tuesday to beat the Falcons 85 to 62. Everyone played and together the Dons won!
Basketball is one of the most loved games on the planet. If you are a fan of the game, there are a few facts about it that you may not be aware of — like that the game was first played with a soccer ball! Here are some other fun basketball facts:
FACT: A junior high basketball game ended with a score of 139-8. The winning team’s points were all scored by one player.
FACT: This was Jack Bayless and his junior high team. Just kidding. Bayless was the high scorer with 33 points to defeat the Falcons. And, that is not fake news!
FACT: We may all be a fan of the three-point-shot, but this was not an NBA standard rule until the season of 1979-1980. Prior to that, a move such as this was considered to be too fancy.
FACT: Zubin Acuna shot one of his smooth 3 pointers against the Falcons. And, yes it was fancy!
FACT: The average NBA player can jump about 28 inches off the ground . The average height for an NBA player is 6-foot-6 inches.
FACT: Bennett Dodge...well, just look at the above photo. He is the real deal!
FACT: In North Korean basketball, you get three points for a dunk, four points for a three-pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds. A missed free throw means minus-one point.
Fact: Nathan Kim has lineage from South Korea. His nickname is ‘Kim Reaper‘. Tuesday he was the ‘Rim Reaper’ playing an amazing game on offense and defense. Also, shout out to the movie, ‘Parasite’, a South Korean film that won the 2020 Oscar for best movie.
FACT: The basketball play “alley-oop” comes from the French term for “allez-hop”. An alley-oop is a basketball player making a basket while catching the ball in mid-air
FACT: Miller Smith takes French at Acalanes and he had an alley-oop against the Falcons. Allez les Dons!
FACT: Only 0.03% of high school basketball players make it to the NBA and only 0.003% play at that level for longer than 4 years. FACT: Frosh Dons are focusing on college after 2023
FACT: Michael Jordan had a “love of the game” clause in his contract, allowing him to play basketball against anyone, anytime and anywhere.
Fact: We LOVE our Dons anytime and anywhere!
Scoring Summary: Jack Bayless (33) Landon Best-Santos (11) Justin Zegarowski (9) Nathan Kim (7) Colin Norstad (6) Miller Smith (5) Coco Gannon (5) Zubin Acuna (3) Bennett Dodge (3) Nathan Bennett (2)
The last game for the Acalanes freshman basketball team will be ab away conference game @ Las Lomas (Walnut Creek, CA) on Thursday, February 13 @ 4pm