When Todd Golden was hired at Florida he came in with an analytical approach, and he took the unshakeable belief in that style into whatever game the Gators were playing. Given that, it seemed rather poetic that the Gators would find themselves in a National Championship game with a Houston Cougars team who, well–couldn’t be more on the opposite side of the spectrum. Florida is all about an analytical approach to shot selection, and that approach is about taking most of your shots either at the rim or from three-point land. Houston, a team that doesn’t care about analytics, was 357th in the country in shots at the rim, 287th in three-point attempt rate, and 1st in the country in mid range jump shots.
Florida’s Unshakeable Belief In Analytics The Edge They Needed In National Championship Game
