The season is near. Time to get down to business.
The past 4 times (and probably many more than that) that IU won the Big Ten, they had 3-5 players shooting at a better 3pt percentage than Johnson and Kopp.
Without looking any further than just Indiana, can Indiana win the conference without the shooters? Precedent would say no, they can't. And I can assure you that if you tell me they can then we will start looking at all Big Ten champs and see if such a seemingly unlikely scenario can occur in Bloomington this year.
If we can all agree that we are not going to see Bates, Trayce, Gallo, Geronimo and Race turn into outside snipers... then it comes down to JHS, Johnson and Kopp hitting enough outside to carry the team. As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, it seems a championship in Btown would have to be a statistical anomaly.
The past 4 times (and probably many more than that) that IU won the Big Ten, they had 3-5 players shooting at a better 3pt percentage than Johnson and Kopp.
Without looking any further than just Indiana, can Indiana win the conference without the shooters? Precedent would say no, they can't. And I can assure you that if you tell me they can then we will start looking at all Big Ten champs and see if such a seemingly unlikely scenario can occur in Bloomington this year.
If we can all agree that we are not going to see Bates, Trayce, Gallo, Geronimo and Race turn into outside snipers... then it comes down to JHS, Johnson and Kopp hitting enough outside to carry the team. As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, it seems a championship in Btown would have to be a statistical anomaly.