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Name That Team | January 19,2010
By Paul Gotham
The first in a new series here on Pickin’ Splinters. This feature is designed to help readers get familiar with teams around the country. After considering all the facts, make your guess as to the team being described. Please try and not look up the answer.
With a strength of schedule currently ranked 15th in the country, this team’s raw statistics have taken a hit. Still, entering play in the West Coast Conference with a 14-3 overall record, the squad ranks 16th in the country with a field goal percentage of 49.3. Three-point percentage is down from year’s past at 36.5 percent. Last year, this team knocked down 39 percent from long range and two years ago hit 37.5 percent. Those numbers contribute to 79.3 points per game. Currently, this school has a rebound margin of 5.9
Other stats:
Scoring margin: 9.7
Free throw percentage: 66.3
Assists: 13.4
Blocked shots: 3.3
Steals: 7.1
Turnover margin: -.8
Name that team.
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Well, it’s not the Harlem Globetrotters – they’re East Coast. I give up.
The Zags?
I am whistling ‘Sweet Georgia Brown.”
Yes, Pete, it is the Zags. Gonzaga was ranked #15 in this week’s AP Poll and #10 in the ESPN/USA (In case you were wondering, there is no longer a poll called the UPI). CBS has them ranked #14. I would like to talk about the Pickin Splinters poll, but….
The Bulldogs have an RPI of 14.
I did look it up AFTER to confirm my guess. Conference should have been a giveaway, but I did not know their conference as a certainty. UPI reference a shot at my age or YOUR age? LOL! I was surprised to see such a large discrepancy between writers’ rank and coaches’ rank; usually doesn’t happen.
Sad news – Dan Fitzgerald, the coach who brought Gonzaga to prominence, died, See the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012001442.html?wprss=rss_sports
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