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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4251123, member: 1329"] It's not saying it should have been a loss. The shots are what they are. The teams executed as they did. It's saying that it [I]often[/I] would have been a loss with average execution. Richmond shot 1/22 from 3. 1 for 22. They're not the best shooting team, but 2 guys that are 37% shooters went 1/12. Providence, on the other hand, shot 12/22. On the same number of shots, they made 11 extra 3-pointes. Among them, Al Durham went 3/4. Al Durham famously shot 19% from 3 in conference play. Then Richmond went 8/21 from the FT line. Great FT defense by Providence, truly. An 80% shooter went 2/6. A couple worse shooters just didn't make any (0/6). So Richmond didn't deserve to win. But they very well could have if they had made the same decisions but executed better. [/QUOTE]