COLUMBIA — At Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Md., they didn’t let Michael Carrera shoot 3-pointers. They didn’t know what they were missing.
“Now my high school coach tells me that if he’d let me shoot them, we’d probably have won the national championship,” said the South Carolina forward. “But I keep working on it. ... As you can see, every year I’m getting better and better.”
Carrera, 6-5 with broad shoulders and an ability to elevate above the rim, hardly fits the mold of a typical 3-point shooter. Yet he’s off to a torrid start to this season behind the arc, connecting on 62 percent of his 3-point tries, another reason why No.