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There’s the money shot people talk about when they snap a good photograph, and then there’s the money shot that has cold, hard cash attached to it.
It’s the latter for a couple of college students who recently sank half-court shots worth a year’s tuition to their colleges.
University of Nevada, Reno, student Rhys York made his money shot Tuesday during season opener for the Wolf Pack against the University of Utah Utes.
A few states away on the same night, an unidentified student at the University of Oklahoma student sank his worries about tuition with a more difficult challenge. He had 30 seconds to complete a free throw, a lay-up and a 3-point shot during the Sooners’ game against the University of Texas at San Antonio.
York attended the game in Reno as an afterthought, according to an account by news station KTVN. He’d just finished an exam, and his friends convinced him to go. Halfway through the first quarter, a woman from the Nevada Greater Credit Union, which is putting up the tuition money, asked if he’d be interested in taking part in the half-court shot challenge for a thousand bucks.
“I was like ‘sure, heck yeah,’ ” he said. “So I get down there and it’s like two minutes before I have to take the shot. She was like, ‘It’s actually for a year’s tuition,’ so I got way more nervous.”
But he made it.
“I was on cloud nine, because tuition, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I don’t have to worry about school now that I am a junior, and senior year is paid for.’ ” says York.
Think those shots are easy?
A student at Abilene Christian University didn’t try very hard to make a half-court shot and lobbed the ball into the stands. He still earned fame — rather infamy, after the viral site Bar Stool Sports burned him with this: “Don’t ever let that man pick up a ever basketball again.
Tough luck, kid.
A basketball coach in Kansas easily made a half-court shot, and he was blindfolded. In fairness, Joel Branstrom was a walk-on for the University of Kansas Jayhawks before he became a girls’ basketball coach for Olathe High School.
In 2010, his students pranked him with a dizzying challenge: If he could make the half-court shot blindfolded, after being spun around several times, they’d send him to that year’s NCAA Final Four in March.
They were confident Branstrom would miss the mark and had arranged for spectators in the gym to cheer wildly, making him believe he’d actually connected.
The joke was on the students. The ball swished through the net, and they were left wondering how to make good on the payoff.
The Olathe community bailed them out, donating enough money to buy four tickets and send Branstrom and his family to the Final Four.
In a live appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” after video of the shot made him an internet sensation, Branstrom attempted the feat again.
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He came close, but the ball bounced off the rim.