UConn's Doty has a trick shot or two up her sleeve

After tearing an anterior cruciate ligament for the third time since her senior year at Germantown Academy, Caroline Doty has not been able to play for the Connecticut Huskies this season. All that free time has given the Doylestown product ample opportunity to develop another skill: the trick shot.

About two months ago, at the urging of Connecticut's manager, Greg Mihailides, Doty starred in a video called "Rise & Fire," which as of last week had received more than 160,000 hits on YouTube. The video shows Doty making a series of off-the-wall shots, with UConn men's star Kemba Walker sitting courtside.

Doty made one basket by bouncing the ball off the foul line. She made another from the Gampel Pavilion concourse that bounced off the floor and banked in off the backboard. Doty made 11 shots, one from each letter of the "CONNECTICUT" logo along the sideline.

In all, Doty said it took about 90 minutes to make the shots. It took her about 30 attempts to sink the shot from the concourse.

"I've been here a long time, and now I have a lot of free time," she said. "My freshman year, I was doing court stuff, throwing up random shots, bouncing them, and they'd go in. This year, every road trip we would have an extra 10 minutes while the players [were] getting iced and doing interviews, and I'd shoot from half-court or try this shot, and it'd go in. One thing led to another."

In an arrangement with ESPN, Doty got together with the Harlem Globetrotters three weeks ago, but neither she nor any of them could replicate the shot from the concourse.

Doty will continue to try, as she needs footage for another video. She also needs something to do while she continues to rehabilitate from the knee surgery she had seven months ago. Though she can shoot, she cannot take part in contact drills and cannot play until mid-July, Doty said.

"We're trying to put out another video after the tournament," said Doty, a junior with two years of eligibility remaining. "Since I still can't practice or do anything for the team, I have the time."

Watch Caroline Doty's trick shots at www.philly.com/dotytrickshots.EndText