Boise State's Abby Vaughan and Nevada's Ashley Bastian have been invited to participate in this weeks Mountain Dew Slam Dunk / Three-Point Shooting championships. Vaughan and Bastian are two of the eight participants selected for the three-point contest. This event is entering its 15th year and is one of the events leading up to the NCAAs Mens Basketball Final Four being held this weekend at the Louisiana Super Dome in New Orleans.
This year's event, the 15th annual competition among shooters and slammers, will take place at the Alario Center, just outside of New Orleans, on Thursday April 3 at 7 p.m. (CT). ESPN2 will air the event at 10:30 p.m. (ET) that night, and the flagship station ESPN will televise the two-hour special on Saturday, April 5 (3-5 p.m. ET).
Bastian and Vaughan will compete against seven other women: Coretta Davis, UNC; Katie Davis,
Villanova; Kara Lawson,Tennessee, Ashley McElhiney, Vanderbilt; Alicia Ratay,N.D.;
Amy Waugh, Xavier and Lindsey Wilson, Iowa State. The mens side that will bring about one competitor for the top woman to face consists of six shooters: Matt Bonner, Florida; Tom Coverdale, Indiana; Willie Deane, Purdue; Kyle Korver, Creighton; Hollis Price, Oklahoma and Kent Willams, Southern Illinois.
Bastian spent the majority of the 2002-03 season as the national leader for three-pointers a game as well as in the top-15 for three-point percentage. She has the school record for three-pointers in a career, ending with 212 replacing her former teammate and Angie Heer who converted on 150 from 1997-01.
Vaughan ended her collegiate career as the most prolific three-point shooter in Boise State history (men or women) with a school record 260 made. She is one of two Boise State athletes to surpass 200 career three-pointers, the other is Abe Jackson (1998-2002), and the only woman to accomplish this feat.