Danielle Clauson Plays By No Rules

Written by Ashley Burns / 03.03.11

You may have already seen this little nugget of women’s basketball trick shottery on ESPN’s Top Plays or in an email your feminist older sister sent you, but I didn’t see it until this morning because I save my chicks hoops for Thursdays when my pride is already mostly defeated.

On Monday night, the Concordia Cavaliers were tied with the College of Idaho Breastfeeders Coyotes 61-61 with .7 seconds left on the clock. Faced with the possibility of overtime, Cascade Collegiate Conference first-teamer Danielle Clauson knew she would need a miracle shot to win, otherwise she’d never be home in time to watch The Bachelor.

Noticing that her opponent’s back was facing her – I like where this is going – Danielle inbounded to herself off the defender’s back and hit a monster tomahawk windmill 360 layup for the win. As you can see in the video after the jump, the crowd just goes insane. Especially all the guys who were there and subsequently lost their man cards when leaving the arena.

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Take Some Notes, Dwight Howard

Written by Ashley Burns / 11.15.10

One of the things that we love to talk about around the Uproxx headquarters on Fire Island is sports, and the favorite among our family is women’s basketball (especially Vince). Now if you can provide the rare awesomeness of women’s basketball combined with Japanese people, then you’re really scratching my sweet spot. Thankfully, we came across this video (after the jump) of a Japanese woman putting on a clinic with a basketball free throw game, and homegirl makes JJ Redick look like LeBron James shooting from Shaquille O’Neal’s shoulders.

It’s an impressive little routine, that’s for sure, but I’ll be more impressed if she pulls off her next feat – driving between two lines. BONG!

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