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NBA draft prospects to watch in the March Madness tournament
USAT’s Mackenzie Salmon gives you four players to keep your eye on in March Madness that will most likely be heading to the NBA next year.
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For anyone who has watched college basketball for any amount of time, the scene is a familiar one.
In the waning seconds of a tight game in the NCAA Tournament, a player steps to the free-throw line to either ice a win or pull their trailing team closer. For a handful of seconds, the eyeballs of millions are fixed on a college-aged student trying to get one step closer to their dreams.
If the Wofford men’s basketball team finds itself in that position sometime over the next week, perhaps beginning with its first-round matchup today with No. 2 seed Tennessee, it’s possible that one of its players walks into that pressurized situation in a way that few do.
Terriers center Kyler Filewich is a rarity among not only college basketball players, but basketball players at any level — he shoots his free throws under-handed or, as it’s more commonly known, “granny style.”
Filewich’s technique attracted nationwide attention last week in Wofford’s victory against Furman in the Southern Conference Tournament championship game, when a video of him missing an underhand free throw with about 15 minutes remaining in regulation made the rounds on social media.
If Wofford makes some kind of run in the NCAA Tournament, and if Filewich plays any role in that success, he could be the next person in a long and proud line of March Madness cult heroes.
Here’s a closer look at Filewich and his approach to free throws:
Wofford basketball underhand free throws
Filewich has been an integral player on a Wofford team that’s making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2019.
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Publish date : 2025-03-20 17:02:00
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