Norm Peterson

So, back to my question earlier in the thread. You take just ONE of these 4-5 guys who I think has a realistic shot at doing this 40% on 50 attempts or more, and put the on one of our past teams and how much of a boost would that have given us? I'm certain there were years that it would have made the difference for us to make the dance.

OK, we know who the starters are now. But who is going to jump center? And do we win the tip? Guesses? We have three 6'9" guys in the starting lineup. I'm going to go with Lat winning the opening tip. I'm guessing Lat has long arms and is springy.

So, I'm dressed for game day. I don't usually do this but the lack of sports spectating options has left me a little more amped than usual. I chose to go with a pair of red and black socks I have with martini glasses on them. Which could serve dual purposes of celebrating success or drowning sorrows. Either way, I'm covered.

So, instead of being suspended for 50% of the season, because it's a shortened season, he's being suspended for 60%. Sounds fair.

Two guys combining for nearly 150 makes? At better than a 43% clip? Yeah, I'd take it.

Good for Fred:

This is bullshit.

I feel badly for Akol. A redshirt year might have done him some good, but not one where he's out with an injury. But his athleticism is rare. And, from what I could see, I think he had the potential to be a really good shooter. If he could get the defense part of the game down -- and he has the athleticism to do it -- he could become a quality 3-and-D type role player. He could still get there, but this was a season for him to have a chance at some playing time. Notably, I think I read on Twitter that his brother might get the starting nod for San Diego State against UCLA today.

Interestingly, so I set the limit at 50 attempts. It's an arbitrary number as mentioned before. I could have set it at 100. If I had done so, we'd have had two guys -- Pitchford and White -- who would have made the list. But, lowering the requirement to 50 attempts only added 1 more guy. In ten years.

Whoever guessed the 5th spot was between Yvan and Thor was right. Lat's starting and so is Yvan.

GOOOOOOOO!

Glynn was one miss away from making the group. Just one miss. Dropped him below 40% by the tiniest of margins. Otherwise, this is correct. Three. In ten years. And Toney did it on just 86 attempts, so not even a high volume effort (which is why you'd forget he did it.)

Indeed. But the thing that always puzzled me is you get 13 scholarships. You can't use one of them on a solid perimeter shooting threat? So, one of the things that got me thinking about this topic was if you could take any single one of those 4-5 players who stand a good shot at being north of 40% on shooting treys and put them on, hell, any Miles team that didn't have a full roster, or any of the poor shooting teams under Doc or Collier, and could the addition of a good shooter have been enough to get us to the dance floor any of those years we failed to make it? How many of those past teams could have used a guy like Trevor Lakes or Keisei Tominaga, neither of whom will likely be among the top 3-4 options on our squad next year?

Not sure I agree. Below are the team 3-pt% numbers for each season for Creighton and Nebraska from 2002-03 to present. Creighton on top. Our years we won in bold; theirs they lost underlined. (We split in 2003-04 with us winning in the NIT.) The winning team had the better season-long 3-pt% numbers (ergo a better shooting team) 14 out of 19 times. 38.9, 37.9, 41.5, 35.7, 34.4, 37.0, 38.3, 32.6, 35.8, 42.5, 42.1, 42.1, 34.5, 35.2, 39.9, 37.6, 39.4, 38.6 27.7, 39.1, 31.7, 34.8, 37.5, 34.3, 36.4, 39.7, 32.1, 32.4, 30.7, 33.9, 28.4, 34.7, 32.0, 34.9, 33.9, 31.8 It appears to just be a difference in recruiting philosophy rather than evolution of the game, and theirs appears to have been a more effective long-term strategy, one we now appear to be adopting under Coach Hoiberg.

The high water mark this century saw a team average just shy of 40% as a team. That's better as a team than some of the best individual shooters in other years, which is kind of crazy. The low water mark this century was 27.7% as a team in Collier's third season. The very next year, they shot 39.1% from three. But our best 3-pt shooting team this century hit 39.7% under Doc in 2009-2010 when we won 2 games in conference and finished with an overall losing record. Isn't that kind of ironic/funny?

Butane Cookman is going to become one of the better running inside jokes on this forum.

It's striking to look back on our stats from last year and see that our VERY BEST 3-point shooter, Thor, was 37.2% on 129 attempts. For an offense that relies heavily on the 3-point shot, we didn't have anyone make more than Thor's 48. And the second best percentage by anyone with more than a handful of attempts was Haanif Cheatham with 34.4% of 93 attempts. With numbers like that, it's not hard to understand why we sucked out loud last year. But, if you go back through the stat sheets over the last decade, we have simply not recruited or developed a lot of good perimeter shooters. I'll give the answer to the trivia question later -- after more people have an opportunity to take a guess. But if you want to dig through things yourself, here's a link: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/stats/_/id/158

I don't know. If he did, it made even less of a splash. I'm still not entirely sure we were even in on this guy. Is this one of those "release a top six just so you can say you did it" kind of things?

Kinda ruins the whole point of releasing a top 6 if no one knows about it. If an "I've released the list of my top 6 schools" announcement falls in the middle of a forest ...

How bad must a kid feel if a school makes his top 6 and none of their fans even have him on their radar until after he commits somewhere else? It's like, oh, we were in the top six of a kid who just committed somewhere else? I did not know that.

In a different thread, I talked about the number of players on our team next year who could potentially hit 40% or better from 3-point range. Some have already done it; others it doesn't take a big stretch of the imagination to think they could. Keisei Tominaga, Trevor Lakes, Teddy Allen, Bryce McGowens, and Lat Mayen all could potentially shoot that well and on a volume basis. Believe it or not, the last guy we had who shot 40% or better on at least 50 attempts was Andrew White III who connected on 41.2% of his 211 attempts in 2015-16. So, here's the question: In the last TEN SEASONS of Nebraska basketball (going back to the 2010-2011 season), what other players besides White have shot at least 40% from 3-point range on at least 50 attempts? Disclaimer: Obviously, we've had some guys shoot better than 40% on less than 50 attempts but I'm not counting those players because that's a small enough sample size that there could be a regression to the mean that would become apparent with more attempts. Besides, if you attempt fewer than 2 treys per game, you're really not much of a 3-point threat. So, while 50 is an arbitrary number, I needed some way to filter out the Samari Curtises who shot 40% on 5 total attempts.

As long as I'm on an Eduardo Andre kick, I had wondered what his FT% was in HS because that's probably a better measure of his shooting touch than looking at FG% for a guy who, in HS, probably got a lot of dunks. So, here's what I found for his junior year of HS: FT% = 64; FG% = 59 And then there's this: Year Grade Team GP PPG DEFR OFFR RPG APG SPG BPG TPG 18-19 Junior Varsity 23 12.3 8.5 2.7 11.5 0.6 0.1 4.3 0.3

Winnable games to get our mojo back.