Off the mark: D-I leader in 3s goes 0-for-12
Wofford’s Fletcher Magee misses his 12th 3-pointer of the game to set an NCAA tournament record. (0:17)
For the second consecutive game, Wofford guard Fletcher Magee set a record for 3-pointers — but this is one he’d rather not have.
Magee finished 0-for-12 from 3-point range — the most attempts from distance without a make in an NCAA tournament game — as the Terriers lost to the Kentucky Wildcats 62-56 in the second round Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida.
Wofford guard Fletcher Magee set the NCAA Division I career 3-point record on Thursday night, surpassing Oakland’s Travis Bader, as the Terriers advanced in the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
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That came one game after Magee set the all-time NCAA Division I record for career 3-pointers with his 505th against Seton Hall in the first round.
He finished that game — and as it turned out, his college career — with 509 3-pointers.
Siena’s Marc Brown in 1989 and Seton Hall’s Isaiah Whitehead in 2016 shared the previous record for futility from 3 at 0-for-10.
Against Kentucky, Magee was 0-for-11 on contested 3-pointers, an area in which he had success against Seton Hall, going 6-for-11.
Magee’s previous career-worst game without a 3 came earlier this season in an 0-for-9 showing at Kansas on Dec. 4, a game Wofford lost 72-47, its lowest point total of the season.