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[QUOTE="orange79, post: 2560556, member: 159"]
So, during some Me time today, I put together some numbers based on the experimental 3 pt line (22' 1.75" 3 pt line, the FIBA standard, not the current NCAA 20' 9") the NIT used this year.  I went through all the NIT box scores for each team and compared the 3 pt shooting percentages of those teams in the NIT vs. their regular season percentages.  Now, I know since half the NIT teams only played one game that there are some limited sample sizes here, but what I found was interesting.

Whereas there are some teams that incongruently shot better in the NIT than they had during the season, most shot worse, as one would expect.  In fact, on average, teams shot [B]5%[/B] worse with the FIBA 3 pt line during the entire NIT.

So, if you want to de-emphasize 3 pt shooting in the NCAA, the numbers (with an albeit small sample size) bear out the common-sense hypothesis that a longer 3 pt line reduces 3 pt shooting percentages.

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