Kentucky Best Three-point Shooting Team Among Sec In Conference Play

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This Kentucky hoops squad was searching for their personality successful December and had to autumn backmost connected defense alternatively of three-point shooting, arsenic they won games against Indiana and St. John's wherever it was their defense turning into modulation discourtesy that ran nan show. Against Indiana, nan Wildcats changeable conscionable 3-15 from deep, pursuing it up by going 4-16 against Rick Pitino's squad. Well, don't look now, because nan Kentucky Wildcats look to beryllium turning it up pinch shooting.

In 5 games of SEC play, Kentucky leads nan convention successful three-point shooting percentage, shooting nan shot astatine a 38.7 percent clip from deep. What makes that moreover much awesome is nan truth that nan Wildcats person yet to put together a afloat 40 minutes of bully offense, which intends astir of that shooting accumulation is coming successful nan second-halves of these games. Here is what Kentucky's shooting splits successful nan 2nd half of each of their 5 SEC games:

Second half @ Alabama: 2-10

Second half vs. Missouri: 5-13

Second half vs. Mississippi State: 5-11

Second half @ LSU: 8-11

Second half @ Tennessee: 6-10

As you tin see, Kentucky's three-point shooting has improved drastically since nan commencement of SEC play, particularly successful nan past 3 games fixed nan continuity of nan roster. It's not conscionable a team-wide effort. In fact, Denzel Aberdeen and Collin Chandler are tied for 5th successful nan SEC successful three-point percent successful convention play. pinch Otega Oweh being 12th. Maybe Mark Pope was correct erstwhile he kept saying his squad would extremity up being a bully shooting team, saying complete and complete really he has ne'er seen numbers from believe not construe into games, and he continued to spot that it would come. Here is 1 of his comments from early December connected Kentucky's shooting:

"Listen, by nan extremity of nan year, I deliberation we're going to beryllium really vulnerable shooting nan ball. I do. I've ne'er person been connected a squad wherever nan wherever nan Noah (shooting) numbers don't really yet carrier their measurement into games. I conscionable person ne'er seen that. ...We person guys that are doing that consistently successful nan mid 70s (percent complete time) that person not exploded onto nan segment successful games yet, but they do. And truthful that's conscionable a matter of time."

Don't look now, BBN, but nan Wildcats are starting to get going from three-point range, and person won three-straight successful nan SEC. You tin return a look astatine nan updated convention standings here. We've sewage a adjacent title aft 5 games.