San Diego State

[aronius]

Dixon dribbled off his foot and out of bounds against WVU in the BE tournament in the last minute of the game. WVU got the ball and made a shot to win the game (wasn't it the 3 pointer that was tipped, just like in the 90's against WVU?).

Ahh, that's right, think he was a sophomore at the time. It was either tipped or banked, lucky bs. I remember that being really frustrating because the Cats were playing well at that point and another W or two might have gotten them in position as one of the last teams into the NCAA tournament.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

@GoodmanESPN
Top 25 teams with worst 3-point shooting percentage: 1) Louisville 2) San Diego state 3) West Virginia 4) Kentucky 5) North Carolina

 

[Bearcat_Ross]

Here is a snippet from this article about tonights matchup...

"One team playing on Wednesday night’s ESPN2 telecast (6 p.m. PST) is loaded with long, athletic players, is among the nation’s stingiest defensive teams, is challenged offensively, is struggling from the free-throw line, is still searching for a go-to guy after losing an all-everything guard (Xavier Thames), is need of marquee nonconference wins because its conference is suddenly very average."

It is eerie how similar SDSU is to us. Take out Xavier Thames and insert SK and that statement fits us perfectly...

 

[LaxCat31]

Wichita St beat Alabama 53-52 last night.

Scoring is down all across the country

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Ahh, that's right, think he was a sophomore at the time. It was either tipped or banked, lucky bs. I remember that being really frustrating because the Cats were playing well at that point and another W or two might have gotten them in position as one of the last teams into the NCAA tournament.

De'Sean Butler bankrd in a 3 after Dixon lost it out of bounds in a tie game with 3 seconds left.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Line has moved to a pick 'em. Can't find an O/U but I would guess it would be around 100...LOL!

109.5 o/u...we can all make some free money today...

 

[jacobkdoyle]

The optimist in me says
UC 52
SDSU 47

The pessimist/cynic says

SDSU 42
UC 18

Lol

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Just looking at SDSU's offensive numbers. My goodness. And I thought we were struggling. I really think we can hold them in the 30s...and I don't mean for FG%.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Just looking at SDSU's offensive numbers. My goodness. And I thought we were struggling. I really think we can hold them in the 30s...and I don't mean for FG%.

They did score 92 points in a win against BYU in Hawaii, who is the highest scoring team. On the polar opposite they scored 36 pts in a loss at Washington, that was their first and only true road game. They have also had a week to prepare for tonights game.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

They did score 92 points in a win against BYU in Hawaii, who is the highest scoring team. On the polar opposite they scored 36 pts in a loss at Washington, that was their first and only true road game. They have also had a week to prepare for tonights game.

The BYU game was 2OT. They had 67 at the end of regulation. Hopefully all that time to prepare helps them as much as it helped us prepare for Nebraska.

 

[westsidecat]

Just looking at SDSU's offensive numbers. My goodness. And I thought we were struggling. I really think we can hold them in the 30s...and I don't mean for FG%.

i know what all the numbers say but watching them vs zona i thought they looked good on offence. they moved the ball well and really didn't take any bad shots.

granted that was the only game i watched of them this year, but they looked way better then anything i've seen from uc this year.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

The BYU game was 2OT. They had 67 at the end of regulation. Hopefully all that time to prepare helps them as much as it helped us prepare for Nebraska.

25 pts in 10 mins of OT, that is 100 pts/40 mins. We had 3 points the second OT Saturday.

 

[L-T]

Wichita St beat Alabama 53-52 last night.

Scoring is down all across the country

Out of 35 Division 1 games last night, only two games had both teams scoring under 60 points. That's 5% of the games. 95% of the games were something different than low scoring.

Last night, 8 teams scored over 80 points, 8 teams scored over 90 points, and 3 teams scored over 100 points. 27% of the teams that played last night scored more than 80 points.

Taking it a step further, 37 of 70 teams scored over 70 points, whereas only 15 of 70 teams scored under 60 points.

I'd say scoring is not necessarily down across America. I could pick the highest scoring game, just as you picked the lowest scoring game, and declare that scoring is up across America. Picking the "outliers" is not representative of the real picture.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

25 pts in 10 mins of OT, that is 100 pts/40 mins. We had 3 points the second OT Saturday.

Haha 3 pts thanks to a KJ triple!!!!

 

[waterhead]

Out of 35 Division 1 games last night, only two games had both teams scoring under 60 points. That's 5% of the games. 95% of the games were something different than low scoring.

Last night, 8 teams scored over 80 points, 8 teams scored over 90 points, and 3 teams scored over 100 points. 27% of the teams that played last night scored more than 80 points.

Taking it a step further, 37 of 70 teams scored over 70 points, whereas only 15 of 70 teams scored under 60 points.

I'd say scoring is not necessarily down across America. I could pick the highest scoring game, just as you picked the lowest scoring game, and declare that scoring is up across America. Picking the "outliers" is not representative of the real picture.

I agree the "scoring is down" argument doesn't hold much water. We have just been a bad offensive team for a long time. That being said we have to make sure we are comparing (efficiency) points per possession and not total points. We are still not good with our efficiency right now (or for a long time) but we can't compare point totals from a slow tempo team to a run and gun team because they are apples and oranges (not that you are or would).

If we maintain a great D and we can get our PPP up into the top 25 we can have some deep runs. Now it's time to get the PPP up.

We just need a couple guys to step up at the 2 and 3 spots. I personally like Cobb at the 2 right now with KJ spotting him. Thomas will be fine against man D but we have to get someone else in there against zone...just not sure who right now.

 

[BCM]

All I read it as is "everyone is scoring low so that makes it OK"

BS, that's bandwagoning on a crappy bandwagon. Please don't handwave it as "everyone is doing it" that does us a massive disservice.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

All I read it as is "everyone is scoring low so that makes it OK"

BS, that's bandwagoning on a crappy bandwagon. Please don't handwave it as "everyone is doing it" that does us a massive disservice.

I think rule changes are needed to speed up the game and space out the floor.

 

[BCM]

I think rule changes are needed to speed up the game and space out the floor.

Well yeah, and there's that too.

 

[L-T]

^^^^
Would be a good next post in the Sanders glue thread.

 

[waterhead]

I just looked at the scoring numbers from this year, last year, and the year before for the #10 team, #25, and #40.


2014-2015 84.4, 78.9, 76.8
2013-2014 82.0, 79.3, 76.9
2012-2013 78.1, 75.4, 73.7


There is probably better scoring in the beginning of the year...but how do we make the argument that scoring is down...and if we can...is it even significant???

Pointing to one game with a low score is not a convincing argument