Basketball
Third annual FT championship set for Feb. 16




The third annual ScoringLive Free Throw Championship will take place on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 as part of The Great Aloha Sports, Health and Fitness Expo at the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall.

The event will feature eight boys and girls teams in a bracketed, single-elimination tournament, with the winning two-person teams taking home the ScoringLive Trophy and $500 each for their schools. The teams qualify for the event by finishing in the top 16 of the season-long Taco Bell Free Throw Challenge, which measures the best free-throw shooting teams in the state.

"We are excited to partner with ScoringLive to incorporate high school basketball into the Great Aloha family of events that promote a healthy Hawaii," stated Carole Kai, chair of Carole Kai Charities, Inc.

The event begins at 10 a.m. The winning teams in the girls' and boys' competitions will face off with the winner taking home the ScoringLive Trophy.

Last year's winners were Roosevelt's Micah Visoria and Kapono Campos in the boys competition and Mid-Pacific's Brilie Kovaloff and Tylee-Kanani Wong in the girls competition. The Rough Riders duo defeated the Owls duo for the overall crown.


Free Throw Championship Rules

  » Each team will be seeded before the tournament begins.
  » A team's seed is determined by their rank on the Taco Bell Free Throw Challenge leaderboard.
  » The contest is a single elimination tournament format. The brackets will be determined by a team's seed as well.
  » The No. 1 seed will play the No. 8 seed, No. 2 seed will play the No. 7 seed, and so on.
  » Participants will be given two practice attempts before the start of the round.
  » All free throws must be attempted from behind the free-throw line (15 feet) and inside the circle.
  » The round will begin once the announcer gives the signal.
  » Once the round begins, the members of each team will rotate every three shots regardless of a make or miss.
     Each team is responsible for rebounding their own attempts.
  » Each round will last 45 seconds, with the team making the most free throws declared the match winner.
  » If tied, additional rounds lasting 20 seconds will be played until a winner is determined.
  » Teams to provide their own regulation basketball for warm-up.

9:45 a.m. Boys Warm-up
10:45 a.m. Girls Warm-up (or after conclusion of Boys Division)





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