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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3122106, member: 4946"] So misleading. When you look at fouls [B]per game[/B], ND is 5th in the nation. [ATTACH=full]42120[/ATTACH] If you look at foul rate (% of possessions where the team committed a foul), ND is 2nd per Her Hoop Stats. ND giving up few free throws is not a postseason anomaly. Meanwhile, offensively, Notre Dame's free throw rate ranks 239 out of 351. Free throw rate is the ratio of free throws to field goal attempts. However, ND ranked 19th in free throw attempts per game. How do we account for the discrepancy between the pedestrian free throw rate and ND's high free throw totals? First, ND played fast (27th in possessions per 40). Second, ND was a great offensive rebounding team (4th in offensive rebounding rate). Because, ND played fast and got back many of their own misses, they were 7th in the nation in FGA per game. ND didn't get fouled on an inordinate amount of their shots. They simply got up a lot of shots. [/QUOTE]