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Like winning the lottery
By Jerry Hill
| Monday, February 20, 2006, 02:19 PM
Considering they had not exactly set the world on fire with their free-throw shooting, I knew the odds of the Lady Bears going a perfect 20-of-20 from the line in Sunday’s 73-60 win over Texas Tech had to be astronomical. Dr. Alan Reifman, who teaches statistics at Tech, actually put pencil to pad and came up with a number. With Baylor shooting 69.3 percent coming into the game, he said the odds of making all 20 free throws was less than 1-in-1,000. Compute it out, and it’s exactly .0007. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack when you’re blind-folded.
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