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In 1988–89, Loyola Marymount's Hank Gathers lead the nation with 32.7 points and 13.7 rebounds per game. [11] The last player to lead the country in both categories was Kurt Thomas of Texas Christian University. His 28.9 points and 14.6 rebounds per game topped the NCAA in the 1994–95 season. [12] Gathers was a junior; the other two were ...
Offensive proficiency rating or offensive productive efficiency is a statistic used in basketball to measure either a team's offensive performance or an individual player's efficiency at producing points for the offense by approximating the number of points generated by a team or individual over 100 possessions.
The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt.
Through last weekend’s games, Alabama (91.1) and Arizona (90.1) were averaging over 90 points per game. Even better, 44 more teams in Division I were averaging 80-or-more points per contest.
The college basketball tournament uses quad wins, where a team’s wins and losses are placed into quads of importance. Quad 1 wins and losses are the most important, and quads 2 and 3 are less ...
Possession at the start of a game (and, in some sports, in a neutral restart) may be determined by several methods, including a coin flip (American football and cricket), home team status (baseball), or by giving the teams an equal opportunity to physically take possession, in what is variously called a dropped-ball (association football), a ball-up (Australian rules football), a jump ball ...
During the 1991–92 college basketball season, Troy State was playing its next to last year as an NCAA Division II school before transitioning to Division I. [4] They were led by head coach Don Maestri, whose unconventional offense-oriented system led to incredibly high-scoring games; that season, Troy State led all of Division II with a 121.0 points per game scoring average (while also ...
A first-of-its-kind College Football Playoff officially kicks off Friday at 8 p.m. ET with No. 9 Indiana taking the three-hour-plus drive north US-31 to Notre Dame Stadium looking to upset No. 3 ...