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Message: [QUOTE="Rowdy831, post: 5156335, member: 12516"] If you look at the top 5 teams the three pointer is vital to their success. UConn shoots the highest percentage of threes at 39% of their shots and only trail ND in percentage made so maybe it isn't a good way to measure overall success, at least not for all teams. The lowest percentage of shots that are threes is also ND with only 27% of their shots coming from long range. If all the top teams only shot 3s they would score more points that they do now because each team scores more points on 3s per 100 made than 2s per 100 made. Like all stats it really doesn't mean much unless you know how they did in individual match ups. UConn had a great shooting night against ISU from distance but other than that game has been pretty average. To me the three is important but if you want to get to the foul line you need twos, if you want to shoot for a much higher percentage you need twos. To beat really good teams you need both. [/QUOTE]