2020-21 College Basketball thread

Yup. Had those all season ... think she had the same thing going when South Carolina faced N.C. State early in the season.

 

This has been the setup for the earlier Alamodome games when people complained the shooting was suffering. My guess is it doesn’t make much difference now (if it ever did) because players are so used to AAU games with a bunch of courts in subdivided convention floor space.

I am curious if the Final 4 is going to be on the two split courts at Lucas Oil Field or one centered court with extra time between games for hygiene theatre.

 

The New York Times makes a very good case they do.

In College Basketball, Cavernous Stadiums Tend to Dampen Shooting (Published 2016)

 

Having covered several clunkers in those domes, I don't disagree with the Times, either. I think this could be a small sample size problem.

 

If spectators are limited, why the hell would you have any game in a dome? They're only gonna look and sound sadder.

 

Didn't realize this until I heard it on a podcast: UCLA scored 23 points in OT the other night. That's the third-highest scoring output by a single team in a single OT in tourney history. It's only two points short of the tourney record, set by ATM vs UNC in 1980s, and only three points off the record for any NCAA Division I game.

 

They scored just 25 in the second half.

(Alabama kept fouling long after the corpse had been pronounced in OT, which is one reason it ballooned so high.)

 

They were down seven at one point and had an open 3-pointer. If it had gone, it might have been interesting. Reason No. 1,564,783 while I will never bet on basketball.

 

Baylor up by two heading into the fourth on the WWL.

 

I need the pxp dude to realize he’s got a good game and quit trying to sell it harder than a Pigeon Forge timeshare.

 

If you go down the list of field goal percentage leaderrs in men's Division I basketball, you don't get to a team at less than 45 percent until No. 114 (it's Oral Roberts, in case you were wondering). The first team you get to under 40 percent is Tennessee-Martin at No. 310 (of 340).

On the women's list, you reach the first sub-45 percent team at No. 29 (IUPUI), and the first sub-40 team is North Texas at No. 174 (of 336).