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[QUOTE="CuseCPT, post: 2968423, member: 645"]
The problem with this line of thinking is that basketball is judged by individual game results, not season averages.    The OP's hypothesis is that with the emphasis on the 3 point shot at all levels of basketball, there are now [I]more[/I] teams that possess the shooters to take advantage of the zone.

So assuming that the other variables stayed relatively the same (ie, we are still recruiting the same caliber of players, etc.) one would probably expect an increase in the number of losses a team that played a defense that was vulnerable to good 3-point shooting would endure over the course of a season and the overall season defensive averages could still stay relatively the same.

Of course all of this is impossible to prove one way or another, but frankly I don't think it's the craziest explanation for a program that used to consistently used to finish near the top of its conference to one that seems to be consistently stuck near the .500 mark in conference play.

As an aside, I remember being baffled by Dontae Greene.   When I first saw him warming up I was expecting Hakim Warrick, Part II.   Hell, Dontae is 2 inches taller than Hakim.   Yet he seemed allergic to the paint and loved to hang around the arc looking for 3 pointers.   Looking back he wasn't an anomaly, he was just the first of a new breed.
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