You can hear Boop chat with Big Daddy Graham every Friday at 5 a.m. on SportsRadio 94.1 WIP . . .
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MONDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> Who is the player with the most career points to have played on NCAA Championship team?
(Answer Below)
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MONDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> It’s a good thing that Sean Couturier scored when he did (four seconds remaining) to lift the Flyers to their 2-1 overtime victory over Pittsburgh Sunday . . . The Flyers are 1-8 all-time against the Penguins in contests that reach a shootout.
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>>> The Flyers have now gone into a regular season overtime 41 times with both the Penguins and the Devils, the most for any of their opponents since any form of the extra period was added for 1983-84 season . . . The Flyers are 7-11 (with 15 ties) in OT Penguin games in addition to the awful shootout mark noted above.
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>>> The 50 three-point field goal attempts by the Bucks Sunday was the most ever by either team in any Sixers game, breaking the mark of 47 done once by the Sixers and once by the Rockets, both earlier last season . . . The NBA records for three-point attempts is 70 (overtime) and 61 (regulation game), both of which are held by the Rockets.
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>>> The Sixers are now 6-1 when the starting line-up is Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris, Joel Embiid, JJ Redick and Ben Simmons . . . The record is fine; that they have had that starting lineup just seven times in the 16 games the team has played since acquiring Harris is not.
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> Kansas’ Danny Manning has the highest career point total (2,951, 12th all-time) for any player to win an NCAA Championship . . . None of the 10 3,000-point scorers nor Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson (2,973, 11th) ever made it even to a Championship Game.