Who was the first NCAA basketball player to score a 3-point shot in a game?

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The three-point rule was first tested in a 1945 National Collegiate Athletic Association game between Columbia and Fordham but professional basketball would be the first to adopt the rule on a permanent basis. The short-lived American Basketball League did so in 1961, and the Eastern Professional Basketball League followed in its 1963-64 season. The three-point shot later became popularized by the American Basketball Association after its introduction in 1968. During the 1970s, the ABA would use the three-point shot, along with the slam dunk, as a marketing tool to compete with the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the 1979–80 season, the NBA officially adopted the three-point shot. On October 12, 1979, Chris Ford scored the NBA's first three-point shot, and Fred Brown led the league in three-point field goal percentage in that first season of adoption. The sport's international governing body, FIBA, introduced the three-point line in 1984. http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Three-Point_Field_Goal Mar 25 10, 12:20 PM

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But according to NCAA records, the first 3-point shot in college basketball history actually came 35 years earlier. Columbia beat Fordham 73-58 in a game on Feb. 7, 1945, that featured a 3-point line 21 feet away from the basket. Columbia made 11 long-range shots, and Fordham made nine. Although there are no records to indicate who made the first 3-point shot that day, Columbia's John Profant made four 3-pointers and Columbia's Norman Skinner sank three shots from beyond the arc. That game marked the only time college basketball would use a 3-point line until the Southern Conference experimented with it during the entire 1980 season. http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=675171 Experimental 3-Point Line Game, at Columbia Gymnasium 2/7 Columbia 73 - Fordham 58 1,000 [20-foot line; also 11 pt. FT from 15', 2 pts. FT from 21 ft; 12' lanes instead of 6'. Columbia's Norm Skinner 3 threes, Herb Poch 2; John Profant 4 three attempts.] http://www.luckyshow.org/basketball/Ramspost.htm Mar 25 10, 12:30 PM

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A cruel twist of fate ended Ronnie Carr's career prematurely, but it couldn't prevent him from earning a place in basketball history. The Western Carolina guard already had achieved that much with one flick of the wrist. Carr made the first 3-point shot in modern college basketball history on Nov. 29, 1980, when he connected from the left corner in a 77-70 victory over Middle Tennessee State.... This shot with 16:09 remaining in the first half in 1980 was college basketball's first three-pointer. http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=675171 Mar 25 10, 12:33 PM