3% is crazy high
I kinda wish it was higher though. destroy those brackets
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Houston: 2-point shooting
Houston is always tough and relentless, and that often shows up on the defensive end. This year’s team is no different: second in defensive efficiency. But these Cougars differ on the offensive end, where they shoot 39.8% from 3, fourth in the nation. That’s an incredible combination, and as a result, they’ve lost just once since Dec. 1, storming through a rugged Big 12.
But for all that perimeter shooting, the Cougars are bad inside the arc. They shoot just 49% in that area, 268th in D-I. That’s in large part due to struggles in post-ups (22nd percentile nationally in points per possession) and pick-and-roll rollers (42nd percentile).
A candidate to beat this team must limit 3s and hold up on the defensive Teams that could take advantage:
- Second round: A prime example of an underseeded non-major conference team, Gonzaga is somehow an 8 seed despite being eighth in the nation in the NET rankings. The Bulldogs allowed just 30.2% 3-point shooting this year, 15th in the country.
- Beyond: Opponents took just 30.4% of their shots from 3 against (6) Illinois, the third-lowest rate in the nation and lowest of any team in the tournament. The Illini do a good job on the boards as well.
Is TA good to go?
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that is a shallow surface level take…
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they should add the context that we take mid-ranges… more than most teams… we shoots great midrange percentages…if we wanted better 2pt% we’d have stopped it… but sampson encourages, it is not a symbol of weakness but a choice
subpoint- is we have drastictally reduced the mid ranges. i season wide 2pt% likely isnt great, but since we shifted from LJ/Sharp/Terrance (shoot mid ranges) as our tight bucket getters, to Milos and J’wan (inside floaters) our 2pt % has likely been drastically better the last few games -
3pt% defense as a metric of good 3pt defense is nonsense for the most part. its a stat that drastically needs context… most people call it a luck stat… the difference between top 100 and bottom 300 is 2%… we played a better 3pt % “defense” than gonzaga in WVU… and yes we did light them up from 3… if you want to measure real 3pt defense you are going to need to get some advanced analytics site to measure either “contested shot rate” or comping the 3pt shooting percentage of every game to that teams average , and then have a season wide average of that (and would only be notable with a big sample size)
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Wow… serious UH haters out there!
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there is tiktok by bleacher report just slandering us that i saw yesterday lol
I am predicting Ced has 10 points and Mercy goes 4 for 30.
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It’s kind of crazy but there’s flaws for every #1 seed
Auburn - lost 3 of last 4 no team has won the championship loosing 3 of their last 4 going into the tournament
Florida - their coach has never won an ncaa tournament game, so do we now just expect him to rattle off 6 straight wins?
Duke - super young and Flagg not being 100% healthy could be issue considering he leads the team in every major stat
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Houston is the best team in the country right now.
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Who would they play in the 7th game? 
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Gotcha
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The Florida teams of the mid 2000s with Noah, Brewer, and Horford.
Put that shid on the bulletin board!
I hope coach shows this to the players 
We’re gonna get a fight out of them. I don’t expect anything less.
3 words for that: North Carolina State
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We’ll get a fight out of them…and in the process…they’ll get MASSACRED.
reference the previous post.
SIUE is no NC State.
Not even close.
Illinois ain’t that great, and they beat these guys by more than 30.
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For the Coogs to win the NC, they will have to do it the old fashion way…they’ll have to earn it.