A (semi) Statistical Recap of Kentucky

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Let’s start with some wild stats from last night: Kansas shot 32.6 percent inside the arc last night and still won. Kansas had almost as many two point shots blocked (11) as made (15), and still won. Kansas scored 5 points the first 10 minutes of the game, and still won. Kansas got zero field goals from a bench player, and still won.

Onto the game as a whole: what a disaster offensively. Neither team could buy a basket. And while Bill Self’s comments after the game that the rims were extremely tight excuses some of the jump shooting by both teams, a lot of those jumpers were nowhere close. It also doesn’t explain a ton of bad turnovers by Kentucky…