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
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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=102458Rebounding Margin
## Team G TEAM Avg OPP Avg Margin
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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