THis is the current top 25 in college basketball.  I said in another thread earlier this would be an incredible year in college ball for shooting and this weeks stats bear that out....when Tommy was at the top of this chart he was between 44 and 47 per cent.  This is an incredible bunch of MAKERS. This year's benchmarks are way over the top . I would say anyone above 39 or 40 per cent is a maker in my eyes. Drop much below that and you got a shooter.....but my benchmarks tend to be a little higher and even moreso if a guy is taking upwards of 15-20 percent of the teams total shot numbers as he is then taking away scoring opportunities from others and it becomes a numbers/possessions equation.....that is the basis for Groce defending the three so aggressively...he held #23 Clarke (Butler) to 6/13 team 7/28, #19 Cosey (eku) to 4/13 team 6/22, #13 Moore (Colgate) to 1/6 team 7/23 essentially making shooters out of the country's top Makers.

The answer to your question lies in what you define as your benchmarks for what consititutes and maker and a shooter.....of course you could always look to see what other coaches are thinking.... Are they leaving a player open to take a shot or are they covering him up.

A final thought to ponder......... DJ is a pretty good maker at times. Would you ever leave him  open with less than 2 minutes left in a close game? 

Rank	Name, Team	Cl	Ht	Pos	G	3FG	3FGA	3FG%
1	Nik Stauskas, Michigan	Fr.	6-6	G	11	29	53	54.7
2	Michael Hale III, UTSA	Sr.	5-10	G	7	18	33	54.5
3	Ryan Sypkens, UC Davis	Jr.	6-4	G	7	32	60	53.3
4	Ian Clark, Belmont	Sr.	6-3	G	10	39	75	52.0
5	C.J. McCollum, Lehigh	Sr.	6-3	G	10	27	52	51.9
6	Darien Brothers, Richmond	Sr.	6-3	G	11	28	54	51.9
	Warren Niles, Oral Roberts	Sr.	6-4	G	9	28	54	51.9
8	Travis Betran, Austin Peay	Jr.	6-3	G	10	29	57	50.9
9	Jordan Hulls, Indiana	Sr.	6-0	G	10	26	52	50.0
10	Matthew Dellavedova, St. Mary's (CA)	Sr.	6-4	G	9	28	57	49.1
11	Mustafaa Jones, Fairleigh Dickinson	Jr.	6-3	G	9	24	49	49.0
12	Robert Crawford, Central Ark.	Sr.	6-5	G	7	22	45	48.9
13	Pat Moore, Colgate	Jr.	6-5	G	10	26	54	48.1
14	Cashmere Wright, Cincinnati	Sr.	6-0	G	10	29	61	47.5
15	Connor Hill, Idaho	So.	6-2	G	9	26	55	47.3
	Jherrod Stiggers, Houston	Fr.	6-5	G	10	26	55	47.3
17	Ceola Clark, Western Ill.	Sr.	6-3	G	10	25	53	47.2
18	Jacob Iati, Albany (NY)	Sr.	5-10	G	11	41	87	47.1
19	Glenn Cosey, Eastern Ky.	Jr.	6-0	G	10	30	65	46.2
20	Greg Gantt, Fla. Atlantic	Sr.	6-2	G	10	32	70	45.7
21	Elston Turner, Texas A&M	Sr.	6-5	G	9	26	57	45.6
22	Parker Smith, North Florida	Sr.	6-3	G	9	35	77	45.5
23	Tyrus McGee, Iowa St.	Sr.	6-2	G	11	29	64	45.3
24	Rotnei Clarke, Butler	Sr.	6-0	G	10	41	91	45.1
25	Sean Armand, Iona	Jr.	6-4	G	8	27	60	45.0
	Jerome Jones, SIU Edwardsville	Sr.	6-6	F	6	18	40	45.

Clearly the 3-ball is important to us.  I'd defend us for that for sure.  From what I've seen, we really want to get open 3-shots.

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I 'll not give it away but the arena is named after Everett Case and looks very Convo ish right there on Indiana 28.

Everett Case later went on to coach at the collegiate level (kind of got run out of Indiana for rather brazen recruiting violations) winning 4 Southern conference titles and the first 3 ACC titles at NC State. .

For those that care...there is a scoreboard hanging from the very similar roof. LED panels got to be lighter than that thing.



From WIkipedia

Case was responsible for many innovations, both on and off the court, that fans now take for granted. Here are some that he either came up with or popularized:

• Numbers on player jerseys.
• Cutting down the nets after a big win.
• Announcing starting players before the game.
• Using the full-court press for long stretches of a game.
• The backcourt rule. Case's teams would hold the ball in the backcourt to protect a lead, which resulted in the 10-second rule.
• One of the first to film games and review film to prepare for a game.
• Played music before games.
• Invited a pep band to play at games.

And lastly for ALan.....I sat with the volley coach from Logan last night ....32 years in the system and he had no clue what association anyone with the Logan program had to do with the NBA., How about a clue.

cazzie russel?

what is his association with Logansport?

Really? Did not know that. I am impressed....thanks for the info.