Column: Three-Point Shooting Struggles Plague Men’s Basketball

Redshirt senior guard Clayton Custer scored nine points against UMKC Nov. 6.Last year, the Loyola men’s basketball team ranked tied for 20th out of 353 Division I teams in the nation in three-point percentage with 39.8 percent. The year before, the team was 27th with 38.9 percent.

Going into the game against No. 5-ranked University of Nevada Nov. 27, the Ramblers were tied for 244th, shooting at a 31.7 percent clip from beyond the arc through six games. After going 7-for-20 from deep against the Wolf Pack, that number slightly increased to 32.1 percent.

It’s a problem that wasn’t expected for Porter Moser’s squad this year. Last year’s three-point leader, redshirt senior guard Clayton Custer,…