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Campus Connection: Comparing Great Teams

The two are clearly different in the way they win basketball games, but there are some similarities, too, believe it or not.

The statistical differences are pretty obvious. The 2010 team ranked highly in assist-to-turnover ratio and assists per game; it shot free throws much better than this one does, it shot more threes and at a higher percentage than this one does and that team didn’t turn the basketball over nearly as much as this one does.

Now you may find this difficult to believe, but this year’s team has a better shooting percentage than the 2010 team did (46 percent to 43 percent), it creates far more steals and turnovers than that team did and it does a much better job of defending the three.