Most teams prefer to get to the foul line as often as possible, except when they’re trying to run out the clock. They similarly want to keep their opponents from going to the line, where points are, shall we say “free”.
All fairly rudimentary.
What’s unusual, to the point it occurs on average only once per year in the ACC, is a team making more free throws than its opponents attempt. Not just in a game, but across the season. Such a metric is considered by some as a mark of excellence, a questionable assertion.
Josh Pastner’s Georgia Tech program certainly pays heed to this foul shooting ratio, not just seasonally but nightly.