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David Van den Heever, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University

Why do basketball players miss shots they’ve made a thousand times before? Neuroscience has an answer

Every March Madness it happens. A player steps to the line, takes the shot and misses. And just like that, there goes your perfect bracket.

These are elite players. The player has made that shot thousands of times before. So what went wrong this time?

Research from my lab has found that the difference between making and missing a shot may come down to stability not only in how you move but how you think.

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