LAFAYETTE — Armed with a laptop and a set of login credentials, Louisiana-Lafayette men’s basketball video coordinator Ryan Welty has the college basketball world at his fingertips.
A few keystrokes here, and he has video access to every right-handed drive that Louisiana Tech star guard Alex Hamilton has made this season, as well as the correlating success rates of those drives. A click of the mouse there, and he has a full breakdown of how effective Ragin’ Cajuns forward Shawn Long is shooting 3-pointers against a zone defense. What’s more, that information is ready immediately.
Welcome to the instantaneous information era of college basketball.