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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Some high school gyms still have the 28 foot hash mark painted on the inbounds side of the boundary sideline.
Anybody besides Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. old enough to remember what this hash mark was originally used for?
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Back in the day, teams had an option to forgo free throws on a foul against them. The 28-foot mark was used as the throw-in location in that case.