So what puts KSU in a better light?
A) Shitty shooting %'s (sometimes including free throws!) from the first 3 opponents were due to great KSU defense, while Loyola's great shooting % was due to KSU's shitty defense.
B) KSU got lucky with opponents' shooting in the first 3 games and unlucky with Loyola's shooting.
I'm really over this discussion, but at the risk of :takingthebait: I'll just say none of the games involved luck as the deciding factor. As some of the hbbiq posters stated going into the game, Loyola was a bad matchup for the dean-less Cats. Their offense has been humming all tournament so far, so I certainly don't think you could call it a fluke from a game-by-game standpoint.
I also do not buy into any argument that overall FT% is really THAT influenced by luck. We knew what we were doing with Kentucky by playing ultra aggressive on their incredibly bad FT shooter.
As I think about it, I'm beginning to believe oscar just put together an awesome game plan against Creighton and Kentucky that our guys were able to execute. For both of those games, oscar had extra time to prepare. For the short notice games, the lack of preparation showed, and we just could not play with the same intensity missing a key player who typically takes up a lot of minutes per game.
