Breaking down the numbers from hot springs: winning teams find formula for state titles--good shooting.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The formula for winning a state basketball title? It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have simple, really: Just put the ball into the hoop. Strangely though some teams had trouble doing that during the 2009 state high school finals in Hot Springs, including five squads that shot below 30 percent and one that shot below 20 percent. Needless to say, all of those went home with a runner-up run·ner-up n. pl. run·ners-up One that takes second place, as in a game, sport, or other competition. runner-up Noun pl runners-up trophy. The 14 teams (boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. ) that did win state titles averaged shooting 42.6 percent (212 of 498) from the field compared to 33.4 percent (201 of 602) to the state runners-up. It seems that the state champions also did a better of job of taking higher percentage shots, attempting almost 40 fewer 3-pointers but hitting seven more than the Losing teams. At the foul line foul line n. 1. Baseball Either of two straight lines extending from the rear of home plate to the outer edge of the playing field and indicating the area in which a fair ball can be hit. 2. things were closer (64 percent for the Losing teams compared to the winning teams 6g percent), but the winning teams averaged slightly more than six more attempts per game. One more cumulative slat to look at: It seems the ladies did a better job from the free-throw line free-throw line n. See foul line. than the men (70.9 to 62.2 percent). Sorry, fellas. |
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