Rico-alling better than this Motley crew; Baylor ADV

[ksupamplemousse]

The interesting thing about oscar is that 3PT% is the single biggest indicator of success or failure while he's been at Illinois and K-State.

Every season he's had a team shoot 35% or better from 3 he's had an NCAA tournament team that finished in the Top 40 of kenpom.

In seasons where his team shoots worse than 35% from 3, he's only had 1 NCAA team (2014 K-State, 33.1%) and they finished #43 in kenpom.

If you sort any other advanced stat there are at least 2 outlier seasons. 3PT% is the most telling stat for oscar's teams, even more than offensive or defensive efficiency.

Well, since the ball is pretty much just constantly being tossed around the perimeter, this is not terribly surprising.

[TheFormerKCCat]

Every time we pulled a little closer I thought I was going to start having fun. But then Baylor would score or block one of our shots to take the thrill right out of it all.  Please say it will get better . . .

Last night was the least fun I've ever had at a K-State basketball game - it was ugly.

[renocat]

Supposedly Claws was riding in a car before the gamex and it was rear ended at 40 mph by a guy who got distracted from texting by driving.  That explains things.

[CHONGS]

I heard 55 mph, and claws was thrown from the car

[ksupamplemousse]

I heard Bill Walker threw him through the windshield.

[AndrewVonLintel]

The interesting thing about oscar is that 3PT% is the single biggest indicator of success or failure while he's been at Illinois and K-State.

Every season he's had a team shoot 35% or better from 3 he's had an NCAA tournament team that finished in the Top 40 of kenpom.

In seasons where his team shoots worse than 35% from 3, he's only had 1 NCAA team (2014 K-State, 33.1%) and they finished #43 in kenpom.

If you sort any other advanced stat there are at least 2 outlier seasons. 3PT% is the most telling stat for oscar's teams, even more than offensive or defensive efficiency.

This is completely accurate. That is why his teams fall on their faces so often against crappy opponents. This year is actually a bit of an exception since we haven't had a horrible loss.  This year we are just losing too much.

[Tobias]

horrible losses are tough to come by when you're in the bottom 25%

[pissclams]

The interesting thing about oscar is that 3PT% is the single biggest indicator of success or failure while he's been at Illinois and K-State.

Every season he's had a team shoot 35% or better from 3 he's had an NCAA tournament team that finished in the Top 40 of kenpom.

In seasons where his team shoots worse than 35% from 3, he's only had 1 NCAA team (2014 K-State, 33.1%) and they finished #43 in kenpom.

If you sort any other advanced stat there are at least 2 outlier seasons. 3PT% is the most telling stat for oscar's teams, even more than offensive or defensive efficiency.

This is completely accurate. That is why his teams fall on their faces so often against crappy opponents. This year is actually a bit of an exception since we haven't had a horrible loss.  This year we are just losing too much.

are there a lot of successful teams that can't shoot 3's well?

[AndrewVonLintel]

The interesting thing about oscar is that 3PT% is the single biggest indicator of success or failure while he's been at Illinois and K-State.

Every season he's had a team shoot 35% or better from 3 he's had an NCAA tournament team that finished in the Top 40 of kenpom.

In seasons where his team shoots worse than 35% from 3, he's only had 1 NCAA team (2014 K-State, 33.1%) and they finished #43 in kenpom.

If you sort any other advanced stat there are at least 2 outlier seasons. 3PT% is the most telling stat for oscar's teams, even more than offensive or defensive efficiency.

This is completely accurate. That is why his teams fall on their faces so often against crappy opponents. This year is actually a bit of an exception since we haven't had a horrible loss.  This year we are just losing too much.

are there a lot of successful teams that can't shoot 3's well?

Obviously everyone want to shoot the three ball well.  Fan is saying that Bruceketball is very reliant on the 3pt shot and that shows up in stats.

KU's dominance in the conference is not based on the three point shot, they win the Rebounding Margin almost every year.  Frank Martin's team need to rebound as well.   

2010

3-Point Field Goal Percentage
## Team                  G     FG   FGA   Pct
---------------------------------------------
 1.Colorado............ 16    110   279  .394
 2.Texas Tech.......... 16    103   262  .393
 3.Kansas.............. 16    107   273  .392
 4.Baylor.............. 16    111   288  .385
 5.Nebraska............ 16    104   276  .377
 6.Oklahoma State...... 16    145   388  .374
 7.Texas............... 16     88   241  .365
 8.Missouri............ 16    112   325  .345
 9.Kansas State........ 16    103   307  .336
10.Oklahoma............ 16    119   361  .330
11.Iowa State.......... 16     88   276  .319
12.Texas A&M........... 16     82   277  .296

http://www.big12sports.com/ViewContent.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=10410&CONTENT_ID=102458


Rebounding Margin
## Team                  G  TEAM   Avg  OPP   Avg Margin
--------------------------------------------------------
 1.Kansas.............. 16   629  39.3  539  33.7   +5.6
 2.Baylor.............. 16   583  36.4  500  31.3   +5.2
 3.Texas............... 16   634  39.6  561  35.1   +4.6
 4.Texas A&M........... 16   594  37.1  523  32.7   +4.4
 5.Kansas State........ 16   618  38.6  554  34.6   +4.0
 6.Oklahoma State...... 16   572  35.8  523  32.7   +3.1
 7.Iowa State.......... 16   625  39.1  603  37.7   +1.4
 8.Oklahoma............ 16   539  33.7  586  36.6   -2.9
 9.Nebraska............ 16   505  31.6  561  35.1   -3.5
10.Missouri............ 16   565  35.3  626  39.1   -3.8
11.Texas Tech.......... 16   557  34.8  663  41.4   -6.6
12.Colorado............ 16   435  27.2  617  38.6  -11.4