(03-08-2018 07:43 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I thought it would be interesting to take a look to see if our presumptions that this place would be difficult to shoot in held up on the first day. And it did.

On average, the eight teams that played day one shot 6.7 percentage points lower than their seasons average and not one of the eight teams matched or exceeded their yearly averages in three point shooting. The best was UAB, which was only 3.1 points off their average. I didn't run all the numbers out on free throws, because everyone appeared to have a decent night shooting them.

Will be interesting to watch this - particularly if teams that played yesterday have much better shooting numbers vs the four top seeds that have yet to play in the facility.

My biggest fear is the narrative of facing teams that got a warm-up game in and have the sightlines down. ODU's best performance in the cusa tournament came when we played every day instead of having a night off.