She enrolled early after injuring her knee, forcing her to miss her senior season of high school basketball. Boyd’s teammates expect her to make a substantial impact in her first time off the court.
Tara VanDerveer, a name without peer in college athletics, will have her name affixed to the Maples court prior to the Stanford women’s basketball game against Gonzaga at noon on Sunday.
Facile as that observation might seem, the numbers bear it out. The 3-point line has been in the National Basketball Association since the 1979-80 season, when the league opted for a trial run of ...