Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The sport that can't shoot straight...

What's the deal with all the offensive offenses this winter? I saw St Louis put up a shot-clock era record-low 20 points on the board in their game with George Washington a few weeks ago...and while the Billikens shooting woes (15 % from the field against the Colonials) appears to be an abberation (coach Rick Majerus' team is 44% on the season), it brings to mind a numbing quantity of games where teams score in the 30's and 40's--and I'm not talking about interconference mismatches (Virginia Tech 68, George Washington 36) but actual league play (Georgetown 58, Rutgers 46 and George Mason 85, Drexel 38)...

It was my assumption that Division I College Basketball games operate like the SAT's: akin to getting 400 points for signing your name--don't you automatically get 50 points for rolling the balls out on the floor?

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