Hoppes-Mikanowski limit
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The Hoppes-Mikanowski limit is broken when two players on the same team each score above 70 ppg in any format. It was first broken at the 2000 NAQT IFT at Yale, by its namesakes Jeff Hoppes and Jacob Mikanowski. (Stats from this performance are sadly lost to the sands of time.) Their accomplishment remained unmatched until Emory's 2013 mirror of VCU Closed, where Will Butler and Adam Silverman[1] became the second pair of players to do so.
Further investigation reveals that the stat in question may have been a pre-modern stat called PATH rather than PPG, and the original "limit" may not have been set at all; regardless, its power to inspire has remained.
Performances exceeding the Hoppes-Mikanowski limit
- 2013 VCU Closed Emory mirror: Adam Silverman (76 PPG) and Will Butler (71.5 PPG) (Georgia Tech)
- 2013 Penn Bowl Ottawa mirror: Trevor Davis (75.56 PPG) and Sinan Ulusoy (72.22 PPG) (Alberta)
- 2015 Missouri Open Minnesota mirror: Rob Carson (128.5 PPG) and Andrew Hart (82.86 PPG) (open team; Andrew played 5.25 rounds of ten)
- 2015 Missouri Open Michigan State mirror: Auroni Gupta (86 PPG) and Will Nediger (71 PPG) (Michigan)
- 2016 MIT Winter Academic Tournament [2]: Devin Shang (70.77 PPG) and Colin Cantwell (71.92 PPG) (Lexington)
Near misses
- 2009 Minnesota Open MIT Mirror: Jerry Vinokurov (71 PPG) and Eric Mukherjee (61 PPG)
- 2011 TIT Michigan Mirror - Andrew Hart (65.91 PPG) and Rob Carson (69.55 PPG)
- 2013 Lisgar's JAMES Mirror - Ted Gan (72.14 PPG) and Cameron Amini (69.29 PPG)
- Countless others