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Message: [QUOTE="DavidinNaples, post: 4037974, member: 3537"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="LOWELL5_2.jpg"]69444[/ATTACH] [B]Quick quiz... Did UConn shoot better or worse than 35% from the 3 pt arc last season? [/B]Interesting answer. As a team, yes, they were 35.6% from beyond the arc. Yet, individually, only 1 player made more than 35% of their threes. (Her initials are PB). Consider these surprising 3 pt. stats from last season: 1. Without Paige, the team 3 pt average was 32.1% (137-427) 2. [B]Paige made 46.4% of her threes last year[/B]. (64-138) 3. While Paige made her 64 threes, the rest of the team made 137. 4. The 201 total made threes (in 30 games) was in sharp contrast to previous years. *2019-20 = 281 threes in 32 games. *2018-19 = 303 threes in 38 games. 5. [B]UConn's 3 pt defense was superb & equal to previous season[/B]. Opponents made 27.2% of their 3s. (Previous four seasons opponents made 27%, 28%, 27% and 28%) 6. Players returning for this coming season made 92.5% of the 201 threes. (Only Anna (15) and Autumn (2) are gone.) 7. Christyn took the most threes (143) and had the 2nd most makes (49). (Evina was 3rd with 40 made threes.) 8. [B]Nika Muhl tied Christyn for the 2nd most accurate shooter at 34.3%[/B]. She was 24-70. 9. Only Aaliyah Edwards and Piath Gabriel did not try a single three all season. (Liv and Aubrey were a combined 7-35 or 20%.) 10. The Huskies tried 18.8 threes per game last year. In each of the previous 2 years, they shot 22 per game. [B]The addition of Azzi Fudd and Caroline Ducharme should improve both three point accuracy and shot distribution[/B]. (Paige and Christyn took 50% of last season's threes.) Both are considered superb three point shooters and should reduce opponents ability to focus so intently on Paige. In addition, all the returning three point shooters will have another year of practice and coaching to improve their selection and accuray. Should be fun to watch..!! Go Huskies..!! [/QUOTE]

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