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Carl Pierre to Participate in College 3-Point Championship
3/29/2022 9:54:00 AM | Men's Basketball
HOUSTON — Following a record-setting season, graduate student Carl Pierre has been selected to participate in the 33rd annual TaxAct Men's College 3-Point Championship.
The event will be held this Thursday, March 31 on the campus of Xavier (La.) University in New Orleans, and will be televised on ESPN at 8 p.m. CT.
He becomes the first Rice player to participate in the event and just the second player from Conference USA, joining East Carolina's Akeem Richmond in 2014.
Pierre set the Rice single-season record with 97 three-pointers and tied the single-game mark for three-pointers with eight at Marshall. He led the league in three-point field goal percentage, connecting on 40.4% from beyond the arc, and was second with 2.9 three-pointers made per game.
Pierre averaged a team-leading 15.4 points per game, good for seventh-place in C-USA while pulling down 4.7 rebounds. He's was also sixth in the league in field goal percentage, connecting on 46.9% from the field.
The Boston, Mass., native led the team in scoring a team-high 15 times and has recorded 26 double-figure scoring games. He led the Owls with eight 20-point games, including twice scoring a career-high 30 points at Marshall and UTEP. He earned Conference USA Player of the Week honors after helping the Owls to a series sweep of Middle Tennessee and UAB.
Twenty-four of the nation's elite men's and women's college basketball players will compete for slam dunk and three-point shooting bragging rights. The night features the Great Clips Slam Dunk Championship, the TaxAct Men's 3-Point Championship, the Rocket Mortgage Women's 3-Point Shooting Championship and the Applebee's Team Shootout. The winners of the TaxAct Men's and Rocket Mortgage Women's 3-Point Championships will then compete in the Battle of the Champions.
Tickets for the State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships are on sale now. Individual tickets begin at $15 and special rates for groups of 10 or more are also available here.
The event will be held this Thursday, March 31 on the campus of Xavier (La.) University in New Orleans, and will be televised on ESPN at 8 p.m. CT.
He becomes the first Rice player to participate in the event and just the second player from Conference USA, joining East Carolina's Akeem Richmond in 2014.
Pierre set the Rice single-season record with 97 three-pointers and tied the single-game mark for three-pointers with eight at Marshall. He led the league in three-point field goal percentage, connecting on 40.4% from beyond the arc, and was second with 2.9 three-pointers made per game.
Pierre averaged a team-leading 15.4 points per game, good for seventh-place in C-USA while pulling down 4.7 rebounds. He's was also sixth in the league in field goal percentage, connecting on 46.9% from the field.
The Boston, Mass., native led the team in scoring a team-high 15 times and has recorded 26 double-figure scoring games. He led the Owls with eight 20-point games, including twice scoring a career-high 30 points at Marshall and UTEP. He earned Conference USA Player of the Week honors after helping the Owls to a series sweep of Middle Tennessee and UAB.
Twenty-four of the nation's elite men's and women's college basketball players will compete for slam dunk and three-point shooting bragging rights. The night features the Great Clips Slam Dunk Championship, the TaxAct Men's 3-Point Championship, the Rocket Mortgage Women's 3-Point Shooting Championship and the Applebee's Team Shootout. The winners of the TaxAct Men's and Rocket Mortgage Women's 3-Point Championships will then compete in the Battle of the Champions.
Tickets for the State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships are on sale now. Individual tickets begin at $15 and special rates for groups of 10 or more are also available here.
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