More embarrassing than airballing it?
I'd say yes. I found this while looking for UMass/Syracuse highlights:
Onuaku would later fire an attempted layup over the backboard.
In other news...
-- Pete Gillen sounds a little depressed: "I’ve had a bad decade - I got fired, no friends, no money, no clothes."
-- Duke student complains that he'll graduate without seeing the Blue Devils go to a Final Four. Writes GP:
Oh the humanity, how many poor, bedraggled, downtrodden and unfortunate college students didn’t get to “enjoy” a “Final Four” trip? Let’s think now…A couple hundred thousand EVERY DAMN YEAR! Jeez, some 500,000 UVA graduates have never sniffed the place…(Sorry, Hoos, but somebody had to take the fall.)
-- Another great tidbit I found in the SI Vault:
In the Oklahoma media guide under "Favorite class at OU," Sooner forward Darryl (Choo) Kennedy listed "Theory of Basketball." Below it, under "Least favorite class," Choo wrote "Several."