Three-Point Shooting Supremacy
Oklahoma leads the Big 12 with a scoring offense that averages 86 points per game. Almost 40 percent of that total comes from three-point shooting. The Sooners are averaging 11 treys per game through 18 games, the fourth most in the country, and they lead the nation in three-point-shooting percentage, hitting an incredible 46 percent of their three-point attempts as a team.
OU’s Jordan Woodard and Buddy Hield rank No. 1 and 2 in the country in three-point shooting, both averaging better than 50 percent (Hield has attempted 143 three-pointers, Woodard has launched 85 treys this season).
The Sooners have made as many as 17 three-pointers in a game (vs. Iowa State on Jan. 18) and several times this season have recorded 16 in a game. OU has four players (three of them starters) hitting better than 40 percent from three-point range (Woodard, Hield, Isaiah Cousins and Dante Buford) and two more (Ryan Spangler and Dinjiyl Walker) averaging 35 percent or better from three-point land.
As an illustration of how potent the Sooner three-point shooting has been this season, OU’s 46-percent shooting behind the arc is better than six Big 12 teams are shooting from the field overall in 2015-16.
A year ago, virtually the same Oklahoma squad shot just 34 percent from behind the three-point line and averaged four-to-five fewer three-pointers per game.
Clearly the improved three-point efficiency in 2015-16 has contributed to Oklahoma’s sensational 16-2 start in the first half of the current college basketball campaign.
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