It's a product of being a more perimeter-oriented offense.  Jump shooters don't get fouled a lot.  People get fouled taking the ball to the basket and being aggressive attacking the rim. 

I do not really get why people seem so pleased with Ivo versus CMU.  He did go at the basket several times, but his production was minimal.GFs  4/12,  FTs 0/3 and 3 TOs.  Dropped several passes, didn't always explode around the goal to finish or even shoot it.  I understand that everyone wants him to succeed, but are we so desperately wanting this that we accept from him what might not be viewed so favorably if it came from someone else?  I'm hoping his lack of success at the line doesn't deter him from driving in the future.  It's so clearly a mental thing when you watch him step into and shoot the ball confidently from the top of the key.  Hard to understand. 

I don't like to see anyone missing free throws, ever.  In my mind they are free points you are giving away by not making them.  Ivo at least getting to the line tells me he's being a little more aggressive.  You don't get fouled shooting 14' fade-aways.  Even if he's not making a high percentage from the line, think about how huge it would be against a team like Akron to be aggressive at the basket around Marshall and Treadwell.  Get either of those two (or both) in foul trouble and they are a completely different team.  Ivo shooting mid range jumpers puts no pressure on bigs to foul, and Treadwell/Marshall in no foul trouble is a significant disadvantage to us.

I must've read the box score wrong (or it was wrong on ESPN mobile). This is why I got a D in stats class (and why is it a PSY class?)

[hangs head in shame and walks away]

Guys can take a benching two different ways -- they can sulk about it and let it continue to impact them negatively or they can take it as a kick in the shorts and try to up their game. He didn't have a great game and can play much better, but I liked that he is choosing to contribute off of the bench. 8 points off the bench in three straight games isn't bad -- especially when he was held scoreless in the last two games he started.

Bumping and reiterating my concern now more than ever.

I think that in most games much of the difference between our FT total and our opponents' is the number of two-shot fouls each team gets before getting to the bonus.  The opponents always seem to get more FTs early on in each half because they get fouled in the act more.  That has a lot to do with our reliance on the perimeter game.

thank goodness we hit f's when we needed too yesterday and miami was just as bad as we were the entire game at shooting them.

That is what I said at the game. Miami between missed bunnies and missed FT's did everything they could o give us that game. I ealize that is how they played all year but it certainly kept the door open for us to stay in it.

Add to that the fact that several of their players ONLY have a right hand and absolutely can not dribble with the left resulting in stevie and coop picking their pockets 4 straight possessions and you have a tremendous source of frustration for a coaching staff. #4 went right , retreated, went right, retreated,, went right. spun left with his right and came back right. . ...the only time I saw him go with left hand was about 4 mins left he put the ball on the deck down the left side of the lane for 3 driblles. Amazing from a D1 guard.

Parents .....take note..... dribbling goggles and use Pistol Petes HOMEWORK BASKETBALL series... and if you are playing in the driveway ....always give them a clear lane to the hoop going left and swat em if they come right. They will get the left hand figured out pretty quick.

Yeah but I like his basic vids. They are timeless. Much better than the current day vids that show you how to freeze the ball in mid air and cross over with good technique BEFORE you have even figured out how to grow an off hand.