[81alum]

Looking at the box scores of each game, the Pac-12 teams, even Oregon, struggled noticeably with shooting the ball:

UCLA shot 31.3% from the field and 27% from 3-pt range (6/22)

ASU was 36.4% and 28.6% (6/21)

Oregon State was 30.4% and a frigid 9.1%(!) (2/22)

Oregon shot a decent 43% from the field, but even the Ducks were pretty off from long range at just 20% (4/20)

Individually, the top 3-point shooters in the Pac-12 had a collectively awful day:

The Bruins' Dean (35.2% season) was 1/11

ASU's Ekmark (36%) was 2/11

Oregon State's Goodman (39.4%) was 1/6, Slocum (36.8%) was 0/4 and McWilliams (36.2%) was 0/3

Oregon's Boley (43.8%) was 0/5, Sabally (41.2%) was 1/6 and Ionescu (42.5%) was 1/4

Here's hoping we got our cold shooting out against BYU and discontinue this trend tomorrow!

Fascinating observation.  I hope you are right.  On the other hand, three point shooting is usually lower at away games than at home games, and all those teams but UCLA were playing away for the first time in the tourney.  Plus as we all move up against better competition, fewer and fewer three point shots will be completely open. 

What I noticed was not just that the three point shots were not falling, but that all the games were pretty low scoring in general.  Even Oregon only scored 63 and UConn managed 69.  Defense is outpacing offense at this level.  I don't know what that bodes for our chances--but whatever it means for our chances, it doesn't win a lot of converts to WBB.

[81alum]

Looking at the box scores of each game, the Pac-12 teams, even Oregon, struggled noticeably with shooting the ball:

UCLA shot 31.3% from the field and 27% from 3-pt range (6/22)

ASU was 36.4% and 28.6% (6/21)

Oregon State was 30.4% and a frigid 9.1%(!) (2/22)

Oregon shot a decent 43% from the field, but even the Ducks were pretty off from long range at just 20% (4/20)

Individually, the top 3-point shooters in the Pac-12 had a collectively awful day:

The Bruins' Dean (35.2% season) was 1/11

ASU's Ekmark (36%) was 2/11

Oregon State's Goodman (39.4%) was 1/6, Slocum (36.8%) was 0/4 and McWilliams (36.2%) was 0/3

Oregon's Boley (43.8%) was 0/5, Sabally (41.2%) was 1/6 and Ionescu (42.5%) was 1/4

Here's hoping we got our cold shooting out against BYU and discontinue this trend tomorrow!

Fascinating observation.  I hope you are right.  On the other hand, three point shooting is usually lower at away games than at home games, and all those teams but UCLA were playing away for the first time in the tourney.  Plus as we all move up against better competition, fewer and fewer three point shots will be completely open. 

What I noticed was not just that the three point shots were not falling, but that all the games were pretty low scoring in general.  Even Oregon only scored 63 and UConn managed 69.  Defense is outpacing offense at this level.  I don't know what that bodes for our chances--but whatever it means for our chances, it doesn't win a lot of converts to WBB.