On April 2, 1986, the NCAA universally adopted the three-point line in college basketball, years after certain college basketball conferences experimented with the long-range shot.
At the time of the rule change, a three-pointer was just 19 feet, nine inches.
The addition of the three-point line, however, was not entirely well received.
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski considers the monster a threat to America's Puritan ethic. "You should have to work hard to get a basket," says Krzyzewski, who played under Bobby Knight at Army, where everything came hard. Dayton's Don Donoher views the three-point shot as symptomatic of America's declining moral climate.