Did Brady Morningstar of Kansas put up the ugliest missed free throw in the history of NCAA basketball?”
Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:00 am EST The ugliest missed free throw you’ve ever seen By Jeff Eisenberg For those who couldn’t sit through the final four minutes of the Kansas-Texas game on Monday night, it did deliver at least one memorable moment: A missed free throw for the ages. Maybe Kansas’ Brady Morningstar was a little off balance. Maybe he stumbled over an elevated floorboard. Either way his double-clutch foul shot while tripping forward into the paint was the basketball equivalent to a bad toss on a tennis serve. http://www.youtube.com/v/_6iWwHcgasI&hl=en_US&fs=1& “The ball was wet,” Morningstar told the Lawrence Journal-World. “It slipped on the way up. I was so confused. I could have caught it and came down with it, but I’d have stepped on the line. I tried to shoot a little jump shot so I didn’t cross the line.” “I looked pretty stupid there,” he added. “We laughed about it in the locker room just now.”
For those who couldn’t sit through the final four minutes of the Kansas-Texas game on Monday night, it did deliver at least one memorable moment: A missed free throw for the ages. Maybe Kansas’ Brady Morningstar was a little off balance. Maybe he stumbled over an elevated floorboard. Either way his double-clutch foul shot while tripping forward into the paint was the basketball equivalent to a bad toss on a tennis serve. “The ball was wet,” Morningstar told the Lawrence Journal-World. “It slipped on the way up. I was so confused. I could have caught it and came down with it, but I’d have stepped on the line. I tried to shoot a little jump shot so I didn’t cross the line.” “I looked pretty stupid there,” he added. “We laughed about it in the locker room just now.” The free throw shooter was supposed to be Cole Aldrich, but the Kansas big man also picked up a technical for his fifth foul, forcing coach Bill Self to select someone else to take the foul shot. Self chose Morningstar, a 75 p
