We came across this and thought it interesting enough to present it. One thing we have certainly observed is that the lengthening of the three-point distance has not opened up the paint.
David Fox
Rivals.com College Basketball Staff Writer
January 21, 2009
If the NCAA powers that be want to keep challenging shooters, bring it on, Notre Dame guard Kyle McAlarney says.
Moving the men's 3-point line back one foot hasn't affected him one bit.
"It's really not that far back," McAlarney said. "With all the talk, it seems like they moved it back a few feet. But it's only a foot farther back. I haven't seen our guys make an adjustment."
McAlarney has little reason to be intimidated by the new 3-point line, which measures 20 feet, 9 inches. He's one of the nation's leaders from beyond the arc, making 74-of-154 3-pointers (48 percent) through 17 games.
But more than halfway through the first season with the new 3-point line, statistics show that the new distance has had an impact, albeit a small one. The average team made 6.7-of-19.1 3-pointers per game in 2007-08. This season, through Sunday, the numbers are 6.3-of-18.5... Go here for the remainder.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Any effect from the change in the three-point line?
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I did a post on the Nevada board about this. Here's what I found.
* Once you get past the top 50 teams you start seeing a slight drop until by the 150th ranked team the average is 1 full percentage point worse than last year.
* By the 260th team it's a 1.5% drop off
* By the 300th ranked team it's a 2% decrease and then it hovers around that level for the rest of the teams.
* So the top has seen no decrease but from the middle down there is a definite effect.
In frequency:
* There's no drop in the top 10, but the drop off occurs sooner than with 3pt %.
* At the 20th rank 3pt attempts make up 1.7% fewer of the total attempts.
* After that it goes up and down but generally hovers at or below 1.5% fewer attempts as a percentage of total attempts.
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