Kansas not attempting many free throws this season
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If Kansas basketball games seem to fly by faster this season there is a good reason for that. The games seldom are slowed down by whistles that put Jayhawks at the free-throw line.
Kansas always plays fast and you can't foul what you can't catch, but even by KU's standards, free-throw attempts are way down. KU is shooting more 3-pointers, don't have a low-post threat through whom the offense runs and the guards tend to drive to dish more than to score.
Those are all factors in Kansas ranking 350th in Div. I in percentage of free throws attempted compared to field goals attempted, one of many statistics tracked at kenpom.com, with a ratio of 19.6 percent.
The next-lowest percentage and rank (36.4/178th) came during the national-championship season of 2007-08. The highest ratio (48.3/32nd) happened in 2013-14, when Andrew Wiggins took off for the hoop and drew foul calls as the ball spilled out of bounds.
Lagerald Vick leads this year's team in free-throw attempts with 20 in nine games, an average of 2.2 per game, the lowest for a team leader during the Bill Self era.
Season | *FTA/FGA pct. National rank |
KU leader |
FTA/ Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
2017-18 | 19.6/350 | Lagerald Vick |
20/2.2 |
2016-17 | 36.0/160 | Frank Mason |
238/6.6 |
2015-16 | 38.6/114 | Frank Mason |
184/4.8 |
2014-15 | 42.6/42 | Perry Ellis |
163/4.8 |
2013-14 | 48.3/32 | Andrew Wiggins |
227/6.7 |
2012-13 | 39.5/80 | Jeff Withey |
192/5.2 |
2011-12 |
39.8/77 | Thomas Robinson |
239/6.1 |
2010-11 | 39.3/124 | Marucs Morris |
215/5.7 |
2009-10 | 41.3/86 | Cole Aldrich |
159/4.4 |
2008-09 | 39.5/85 |
Sherron Collins |
166/4.2 |
2007-08 | 36.4/178 | Mario Chalmers |
130/3.3 |
2006-07 | 36.2/172 | Julian Wright |
119/3.1 |
2005-06 | 35.3/193 | Russell Robinson |
124/3.8 |
2004-05 | 38.5/111 | Wayne Simien |
174/6.7 |
2003-04 | 39.4/101 | Wayne Simien |
206/6.4 |
*Source: Kenpom.com |
Comments
Craig Carson 4 years, 6 months ago
this team doesn't plat aggressive enough to draw fouls
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