POINTS AND SHOOT: The Dunk Nearly Heard ‘Round the World
By Katie Dowd November 24, 2009 | 9:37 pm
Posted in: W. Hoops
For this Thanksgiving week’s edition of Points and Shoot, we bring you the dunking wonder: Brittney Griner.
The 6-foot-8 freshman from Texas brought her one-woman show to Berkeley last Sunday, headlining No. 8 Baylor’s game against the Cal women’s basketball team. Although Griner’s numbers aren’t spectacular, she does boast something that only seven women in the history of college hoops can lay claim to: She can dunk.
Griner became a YouTube sensation in high school with her dunking prowess and was the nation’s top prep prospect. On Sunday, she scored 15 points and had five blocks in the Lady Bears’ 69-49 rout of the Golden Bears.
Here, Daily Cal photographer extraordinaire Anna Hiatt captured Griner going up over Cal’s DeNesha Stallworth. Check out Griner’s wingspan — 7 feet, 4 inches from fingertip to fingertip.
Griner nearly got her first collegiate dunk against the Bears, too. With 2:08 remaining in the contest, Griner went up for a right-handed posterization of Cal’s Rachelle Federico, but Federico fouled Griner before the Haas Pavilion-shattering dunk could be laid down.
So the world waits another day for Griner’s first.
From all of us at the Daily Cal sports desk, have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends, family and favorite sporting event. Check back here next week for more of the best photos in the world of Cal athletics!
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