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Originally Posted by RainMaker
That's a nice breakdown. Might have seemed worse when I made the comment as they were switching back and forth between Siena-Ohio State and Wisconsin-FSU. I mean Siena won an NCAA tournament game shooting 33%. That is amazing to me.
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I was legit curious when I started looking them up & was surprised to see that myself really.
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Do you know if there is a way to find statistics like that for the 80's or 90's? I'd be interested to see if FG% has remained the same.
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I imagine you could find some odd reference somewhere by Googling through random articles about shooting or the tournament but probably your best would be to find the box scores from older tournaments. Heck, going one by one through the box scores on ESPN is how I pulled that together this morning (and it was every bit as tedious as it sounds).
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I think there are a lot of reasons for it, but I think the one and done rule the NBA implemented has actually hurt college hoops.
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As you might suspect from me noting it here, I think the complete dependence that many teams have developed on the three has to be part of it. There's always exceptions and even moreso in limited samples like this one but typically teams don't shoot the three as well as they shoot the two. But there's quite a few teams that are shooting close to half of their total shots from out there, it has to drive total FG% down. Granted, watching Tennessee persist at it all season is influencing my perception of the problem (and they're pretty much the poster children for it) but it has to be a pretty decent impact for a lot of teams. I understand why teams do it, you can't just shoot twos when the other guy keeps hitting threes and "4 of 10 from 3 is the same number of points as 6 of 10 from 2" and all that but it does make for more missed shots.