Stanford ladies’s basketball received the NCAA event final 12 months. They returned a lot of their core this 12 months, and once more entered March Insanity as a No. 1 seed. The Cardinal roster is so loaded that they’re in a position to take a participant like Fran Belibi — a former top-20 total recruit and McDonald’s All-American — and comfortably put her in a bench function.
Belibi, a 6’1 junior ahead, solely performs 13 minutes per recreation for Stanford, however she may be the perfect athlete in ladies’s school basketball. Belibi is understood for her dunking skill. She began to achieve notoriety for throwing down a number of dunks final 12 months. She saved her most spectacular play for this 12 months’s NCAA event.
With Stanford blowing out No. 16 seed Montana State on Friday, Belibi accomplished a completely ridiculous and historic sequence. First she blocked a three-pointer. Then she recovered the ball, sprinted down court docket, and end above the rim with a dunk. Watch it right here:
You not often see a participant dunk within the ladies’s NCAA event. It seems that Brittney Griner did it most just lately again in 2012 when she was enjoying for Baylor. Candace Parker additionally did it whereas she was at Tennessee.
Our buddies at Secret Base made a video about it:
At 6’1, Belibi is the second shortest girl to dunk in a university recreation. It’s a must to have severe hops to throw down at that dimension, and Belibi does.
The ESPN halftime recreated how they might have reacted in the event that they had been on the bench for that dunk, and it’s good:
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Belibi is an unimaginable athlete, and that was actually a bonkers sequence. Stanford retains on rolling, in all probability as a result of they’ve gamers as proficient as Belibi hanging on their bench.
