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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4091986, member: 1969"]
How things have changed!   Note we are 218th in 3 point defence per Barttorvik this year.

Here is an article from 2013 from KenPom called the Boeheim exception.    At the time he argued that 3 point defence was largely random.   Whether that still holds today not sure.    [B]But he highlighted the Boeheim exception, even though it was still fairly small.     Syracuse was the one team that you could you use to fight his claim of randomness.   They were consistently good at three point field goal defence year after year.[/B]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://kenpom.com/blog/the-boeheim-exception/[/URL]

He noted that Syracuse seemed to have a 2-3% difference than the national average over a period of time.  This was his reason for why it was happening.

"But I think the reason has more to do with the offense realizing that getting the ball to the rim against the lengthy 2-3 zone is not nearly as profitable as it is against most teams. Thus, they lower their standard for what a good three-point shot is. A player may take that open 25-footer that his coach would normally strangle him for because that’s a better shot than driving into the paint and getting swallowed up by trees"
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