Stat of the day: Scoring Offense

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detroitfinal4logo Continuing our glance at statistics and how they may play out come March – today we look at offense. How many points a team scores per game, and how that number contributes to overall success. Here’s the most recent top ten.

Rank	Name	GM	W-L	PTS	PPG
1	VMI	26	20-6	2454	94.4
2	North Carolina	26	24-2	2383	91.7
3	Oklahoma St.	25	16-9	2083	83.3
4	Missouri	26	22-4	2153	82.8
5	Texas St.	24	11-13	1987	82.8
6	Wake Forest	24	20-4	1970	82.1
7	North Dakota St.	26	20-6	2116	81.4
8	Oklahoma	26	25-1	2094	80.5
9	Chicago St.	28	16-12	2250	80.4
10	Tenn.-Martin	24	18-6	1928	80.3

Okay. There’s a few contenders there.

Here’s the top ten last year leading into the tournament. Kansas of course won it all. Carolina made the Final Four. Memphis ranked 16th.

1	VMI	29	14-15	2649	91.3
2	North Carolina	31	29-2	2780	89.7
3	Duke	30	26-4	2536	84.5
4	Texas St.	29	13-16	2423	83.6
5	Cal St. Fullerton	29	21-8	2399	82.7
6	Massachusetts	30	21-9	2477	82.6
7	Tennessee	31	28-3	2558	82.5
8	Duquesne	29	17-12	2391	82.4
9	Kansas	31	28-3	2546	82.1
10	Lamar	29	19-10	2370	81.7

Two years ago:

1	VMI	33	14-19	3331	100.9
2	North Carolina	31	25-6	2700	87.1
3	Eastern Wash.	29	15-14	2443	84.2
4	Northern Ariz.	30	18-12	2490	83.0
5	Cal St. Fullerton	29	20-9	2406	83.0
6	Texas	30	22-8	2486	82.9
7	Davidson	33	29-4	2695	81.7
8	Notre Dame	30	24-6	2446	81.5
9	Memphis	31	28-3	2484	80.1
10	Long Beach S

Carolina and Memphis advanced to the Elite Eight. Texas was eliminated in the second round. Florida won the title that year. They ranked 12th in this stat.

Three years ago:

1	Long Beach St.	27	16-11	2259	83.7
2	Duke	30	27-3	2487	82.9
3	Campbell	28	10-18	2319	82.8
4	Washington	29	24-5	2399	82.7
5	A&M-Corpus Christi	28	20-8	2307	82.4
6	Memphis	30	27-3	2470	82.3
7	Belmont	30	20-10	2455	81.8
8	Tennessee	27	21-6	2206	81.7
9	East Tenn. St.	28	15-13	2284	81.6
10	Connecticut	29	27-2	2356	81.2