This is the premiere of a new, weekly installment where we will dive deeper into the numbers of Texas Tech basketball. Each week, a different advanced statistic will be presented, explained and viewed within the context of the Red Raider season. Our analysis will go beyond the familiar numbers of points per game or field goal percentage. Those long-kept statistics are nice to look at, but hardly shed light on the entire story of what takes place on the hardwood.
The stat
The first stat we’ll look at on our numbers journey is one you have likely heard before and heard recently: usage percentage (USG%).