Dunking his way

UALR sophomore forward Kris Bankston, shown dunking during a game earlier this season, has made 92 of 113 (81.4 percent) of his shots from the field this season, including 59 dunks.Kris Bankston had two primary pitches: A two-seam fastball and curveball.

Before his sophomore year of high school, basketball was a foreign adventure for the man with one of the country's best field goal percentages this season.

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Bankston, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's 6-8 homegrown dunking machine from DeWitt, stood at 5-9 until his sophomore year at Fair High…