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There's quite a good comparison to basketballs' threes and FG's.
Basket 3's: Hit 50%, you win, and hit 20%, you lose.
Football: Hit a FG, you probably win. Miss a FG, you probably lose.

Personally, I wish--ever heard of this--they would make both only worth 2 1/2 points.
What exciting clashes we would have. This major change would be 10 times more suspensfull than what we have with these routine games played today.

How boring is a missed FG?
How boring is a missed three-shot?

The chop down to 2 1/2 points would bring back a ton of fundamentals, guaranteed.

Remember those glory days in football where it was blood and guts for the entire 100 yards so many times?
Bart Starr, #15 and #31, Jim Taylor. I loved Taylor. Taylor was all "blood & guts." He never let up, ever.

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College basketball where the fundamentals were the top priority.
The three shot started in 1986 for college baskets and the NBA started the same season Bird & Magic joined the NBA, 1979/1980.
Get this 3-stat: Shaq and Jabbar's combines 3's: 2 of 40.

"Here are the only undefeated NCAA Basketball Champions and none had the 3-pointer."

Bill Russell and the 1956 San Francisco Dons were the first NCAA Division I men’s college basketball team to finish the year undefeated with an NCAA tournament national championship.

Over the course of the next 20 seasons, six other teams would go on to end the year unblemished. But not one squad has completed the elusive perfect season since Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers did so in 1976. The 3-point line didn’t even make its way into the NCAA tournament until 1987.

RELATED: NCAA tournament championship history

UCLA is the only team with multiple perfect national championship seasons with four.

Five teams have finished the regular season undefeated since 1976 — with the most recent being Wichita State in 2014, Kentucky in 2015 and Gonzaga in 2021. Two of those teams — 1991 UNLV and 2015 Kentucky lost in the Final Four. The 1979 Indiana State team led by Larry Bird made it to the national championship before its first loss.

Undefeated national champions since 1939:
YEAR SCHOOL RECORD
1975-76 Indiana 32-0
1972-73 UCLA 30-0
1971-72 UCLA 30-0
1966-67 UCLA 30-0
1963-64 UCLA 30-0
1956-57 North Carolina 32-0
1955-56 San Francisco 29-0

Did we need the 3 then?