A couple of men's basketball numbers...

So a couple of quick looks at how things are tracking for the men's basketball team.

First, free throws.  It is no secret that our Free Throw shooting was positively abysmal earlier in the season.  In fact, Coach Orr said he was in a state of prayer everytime he went to the line, something which was entirely warranted.  He related how hard the team was working on it in practice, only to see it get worse.  Well, the team is finally seeing this come around, as you can see in the chart below.  BG's last 3 games have been the best three of the season, and against Buffalo, free throw shooting kept us in the game and gave us a shot to win.



The other statistic that I am tracking has to do with 3 pointers.  Buffalo lit us up pretty good.  Coach Orr made a special point that we need to defend the 3 better, and keep good shooters from getting shots off. As you can see, in 4 of our last 5 games, teams have been able to hit 9 or more 3 pointers against us.