Caltech\'s Rocket Science: Shoot More 3-Pointers

Caltech’s Rocket Science: Shoot More 3-Pointers

The school known for scientific innovation and embracing technology has its most successful basketball team in decades. Why? Because the 3-point revolution has come to Caltech.

Pasadena, Calif.

The basketball gym is right next to the astrophysics building on the campus of the California Institute of Technology. The basketball coach has three computer screens on his desk and a ball signed by the school’s Nobel Prize winners on one of his bookshelves, and the basketball players are computer science majors whose stats are listed next to their STEM research projects on the team’s website. It’s all very Caltech.

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