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March 26, 2001
CHARLOTTESVILLE – University of Virginia guard Keith Friel is scheduled to compete in the three-point competition at the 13th annual College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Basketball Championships on Thursday night (March 29) in Saint Paul, Minn. The competition will take place at the Gangelhoff Center at Concordia University-Saint Paul.
Friel, a 6-4 guard from Durham, N.H., was a tri-captain of the Virginia team in 2000-01. He averaged 8.4 points a game and led the Cavaliers with 62 three-point field goals. During his two seasons at UVa after transferring from Notre Dame, Friel made 107 three-point field goals and ranks eighth on Virginia’s career three-point field goals list. He made 42.8 percent (62-145) of his three-point field goal attempts in 2000-01 and 41.3 percent (45-109) in 1999-00. He made 42.1 percent (107-254) of his three-point attempts in the two seasons he played at Virginia.
In two seasons at Notre Dame, Friel was 60-151 (39.7 percent) from three-point range. He was a combined 167-405 (41.2 percent) from three-point range for his collegiate career at Notre Dame and Virginia.
Among the other players scheduled to participate in the competition are Joe Crispin (Penn State), Shaun Fein (Georgia Tech), Tony Harris (Tennessee), Ryan Mendez (Stanford) and Dean Oliver (Iowa).
The event begins with the men’s three-point contest followed by the women’s three-point contest. The slam dunk contest is next with the night concluding with a three-point shootout between the men’s and women’s champions.
ESPN will tape the event with Dick Vitale and Brad Nessler serving as hosts of the program that will air on Saturday (March 31) from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Virginia’s Curtis Staples won the three-point shooting contest in 1998.