Gary Parrish of CBS Sports points out that good shooting is what propelled Kentucky to the Final Four, not the Calipari tweak.
Here is an excerpt.
But here’s what I know: When a team makes a “surprising run” to the Final Four, it’s typically rooted, in some regard, in shooting performances that are above and beyond how that team normally shoots, which brings me back to Kentucky. Yes, the Wildcats have been awesome on the offensive glass, and that’s among the reasons they’ve been winning. But the Wildcats have been awesome on the offensive glass all season, and yet they still got swept by Arkansas and downed by South Carolina. So that’s not why they’re in the Final Four.
Here’s why they’re in the Final Four: Uncharacteristically good 3-point shooting.
The Wildcats shot 31.9 percent from beyond the arc in 18 regular-season SEC games, and they made more than six 3-pointers in a game just 22.2 percent of the time. (They went 12-6 in those games, by the way.) Since the end of the regular season, though, Kentucky has gone 6-1 with a lone loss to top-ranked Florida by one point in the SEC tournament championship game, and the Wildcats have shot 39.2 percent from beyond the arc in those seven contests while making more than six 3-pointers in a game 57.1 percent of the time.
Read UK made this Final Four thanks, in part, to unusually good shooting
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