Instead of counting sheep as he falls asleep, Kentucky Coach John Calipari said he’d been counting threes.
That’s because UK plays at Vanderbilt on Tuesday night.
Vandy (8-7, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) takes a noticeably large percentage of its shots from three-point range. So far, 46.1 percent of the Commodores’ shots come from beyond the arc. That percentage rose to 52.9 percent in SEC games.
For comparison sake, Kentucky, which makes drives to the basket a foundation piece of its offense, has taken 31.4 percent of its shots from beyond the arc. That percentage hasn’t hardly varied (31.