Trivia question: who leads the nation in effective field goal percentage? Given that I am writing a game preview currently it seems pretty obvious, but it’s Dayton. The Flyers started off with a narrow win over a meh Indiana State team, but have obliterated everyone else they have played, including back to back demolitions of Georgia and Virginia Tech in their first two Maui games.
On the surface, the task seems daunting. Dayton takes a lot of threes (43.7 percent of attempts) and is making a solid 36 percent of those attempts. But they’re also shooting 71 percent on twos, which leads the nation by almost 10 percent over the next closest team.