Three Point Shooting at all time high

[tornado]

But can it help a team in the NCAA Tournament - where you'd have to be hot 6 games in a row? ...

Per Sports Illustrated...


This season we have "the highest three-point rate in the 29-plus years college basketball has used the arc
—treys account for 35.2% of all Division I shot attempts..."
..with many teams over 40% of their shots coming behind the arc - Bradley is at 37.9%, Wichita 39.3%, Northern Iowa 42.4%
..and you think Big Ten teams are all about their inside game?? Think again...
Most Big Ten teams are up there - Illinois 38.5% of their shots come from behind the arc, Indiana 40.4%, Northwestern 42.3%, Michigan 45.1%!

"..several college coaches postulate that D-I's rising reliance on the three is due to a "Curry Effect"..
Can (a team that shoots over 40% of their attempts from beyond the arc)
.. actually win a title, in a championship format that requires six consecutive victories, on three neutral courts? It has only happened once, and that was 15 seasons ago, when 2000–01 Duke had a three-point rate of 41.8%...

The average three-point rate for title teams over the past decade is 31.2%—lower than the 33.4% rate for all teams during that span. While there have been 380 college teams over the past decade with three-point rates higher than 40%, only one of them, '10–11 VCU, reached the Final Four, and that was as a wildly improbable 11th seed."


so it appears the best guarantee of sustained success is a strong inside game & not reliance on long shots.

[Da Coach]

Scoring is also increased this season- an average of 73.2 points per game, compared with 67.6 points per game last season. That is a large increase from one season to the next, and not all of it can be attributed to the shorter shot clock and the increased number of fouls and free throws per game. The average points per possession is also increased this year to 1.043 points per possession, compared with 1.028. The NCAA seems pleased with this increase in scoring.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2016-02-16/di-mens-basketball-oversight-committee-reviews-statistical

[tornado]

but all the fouls still causes games to drag on to 2 hrs 30 min and longer...especially it seems, in the MVC with 70% of our games having foul totals in the upper 30's, 40's and 50's

[Future Walk-On]

but all the fouls still causes games to drag on to 2 hrs 30 min and longer...especially it seems, in the MVC with 70% of our games having foul totals in the upper 30's, 40's and 50's

Like I agree with "Don't put your hands on a player blah blah" but the fact its called as a player brushes his hand by is frustrating.

And the inconsistency ... for instance last night Sean O'Brien throws his arm into Thomas (or someone) to get space knocking him back in the lane and gets a freebie bunny but then Oakafor does half as much coming up the court and its instant charge call.

And the announcers were like "LOOK AT S O Brien clearing space what a play"

and then like "That was defintely a foul oh my oakafor they will call that every time"

[Stryker]

The high reliance on the 3 should make the tournament interesting this year. There are no truly dominant transit seems and about every week a top 5 team seems to lose to somebody. The lack of the inside game could make for some major upsets. Think mid majors with strong bigs like BU in 06' with Patrick. On the flip side we could see some good teams lose by just going cold from the arc!

[tornado]

if a DI wants a kid that's a great shooter...Class of 2017 (currently a high school junior)..
there's a really small school kid, Taylor Bruninga at Illini Bluffs who went for 41 points last night - averaging 28 ppg
He's 6-6 and a very reliable shooter who can create his own shot opportunities. The drawback is the lack of solid opponents that he plays against.

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/20160114/taylor-bruninga-growing-into-top-scoring-threat-for-illini-bluffs?rssfeed=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

https://twitter.com/hoijim/status/700890863480737792