CPA coach Drew Maddux hits basketball shot while blindfolded from 362 feet away atop hotel

Christ Presbyterian Academy boys basketball coach Drew Maddux has made a wide array of trick shots, and now he has another one.

On Friday, on his 355th attempt, he made a blindfolded trick shot from 362 feet in the air atop the Omni Hotel in downtown Nashville.

"It's amazing because it's not about the 355, it's about the one," Maddux said after making the shot. "I wish I could've celebrated a little better because we honestly didn't know that it went in."

Although Maddux was not aware that he drained the shot, the spectators watching from the bottom steps of the Music City Center cheered as if he hit the game-winner for his alma mater, Vanderbilt. 

There is no official world record for highest basketball shot made while blindfolded. But Maddux said he and his researchers couldn't find another one made from higher up.

Maddux had two hours to make the shot, and after 353 attempts with 10 minutes remaining, it wasn't looking good.

"As I told my guys, we would've stayed up here until they made us go home," Maddux said. "They know we don't quit, we play until the buzzer and we actually work better with a little time pressure."

Fifth Avenue South between the Omni and Music City Center was closed to prevent damage to cars driving by.

Maddux has a history of making trick shots. He's made a shot from behind the backboard while standing on bleachers. He's bounced a ball off a diving board and made a shot while jumping into a pool. He's even made a shot from the roof of the Omni before, but not blindfolded.

"The most attempts we've ever had is 88 for the other roof shot here at the Omni," Maddux said. "You start to check yourself a little bit, you start to get embarrassed, but then you just play those positive voices in your head that you can overcome that."

In June, the former Vanderbilt shooter broke the world record for the farthest backward shot ever recorded, sinking a one-handed heave from 84 feet away.

Although the backward shot was difficult, Maddux says Friday's shot was by far his most difficult. 

"We changed our strategy," Maddux explained. "It wasn't just luck, we started to put more backspin on the ball and I thought we were going to have to bank it in, or just Lord-willing, the ball went in the basket, and it went it."

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