Wednesday, February 13, 2002

MORAVIAN MEN'S BASKETBALL RANKED SECOND IN NATION IN FREE THROW PERCENTAGE

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College men's basketball team remained second in the country in free throw percentage, connecting on 79.3 percent of its attempts, in the seventh release of the NCAA Division III national statistics for the 2001-02 season.  The rankings include games through Sunday, February 10th.

The Greyhounds, currently 13-11 on the season, had made 382 of 482 attempts in the team's 23 games of the season and trailed Baldwin-Wallace College of Ohio, which has a percentage of 79.9 (321 of 3402).  Moravian has shot under 70 percent in just five games this season and the squad has hit for over 80 percent in 11 games including a perfect 13 of 13 at Messiah College last Saturday.  The Greyhounds percentage fell to 79.2 percent (still second in the nation) after Tuesday night's loss at Susquehanna University.