The Sweet 16 continues Friday. Will low-scoring games continue to be the trend?
’ rotation is essentially down to six players; Xavier’s five starters plus sixth man Desmond Claude have gotten 97.5 percent of the team’s minutes in its two NCAA tournament games. That’s something of a concern for a team that will be playing in its sixth game in 15 days on Friday night. Texas has played the same number of games over the same number of nights, but theTexas is at least a little lucky to be in this situation.
It came into its round-of-32 game against Penn State knowing the Nittany Lions loved to bomb it from three-point range, and Penn State put up 28 three-pointers. If a couple more had fallen — the Nittany Lions made only eight, and at 28.6 percent they shot 10 points worse than their season average — Texas might have been headed home instead of winning by five.Xavier shoots three-pointers at a much lower rate than Penn State: Only 31.
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