He played in three games, THREE, against teams that made the tournament. He field goal percentage for those 3 games? 35.8%. That’s not 3pt% that’s straight up fg%. Everyone here saying stuff like what would he have done? “Make shots.” Clearly against competition that is above average, he cannot do that.
Looking at his game log, I see at least 7 games against tournament teams, and he shot 40% overall and 48% from three ...
date | opponent | fgm | fga | fg% | 3m | 3a | 3% |
11/14 | Utah St | 3 | 11 | 27% | 2 | 3 | 67% |
11/26 | Iona | 7 | 13 | 54% | 3 | 3 | 100% |
12/22 | Boise St | 7 | 15 | 47% | 2 | 7 | 29% |
12/31 | Saint Mary's | 5 | 13 | 38% | 1 | 3 | 33% |
1/7 | Gonzaga | 7 | 14 | 50% | 1 | 2 | 50% |
1/21 | @Saint Mary's | 3 | 9 | 33% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
2/2 | @Gonzaga | 4 | 14 | 29% | 3 | 8 | 38% |
It's also worth noting that he was their leading scorer, which probably means he frequently drew the opponent's best defender, perhaps was a focus of opponent scouting reports / game planning, and perhaps was relied upon to take some tough shots (e.g. short shot clock situations, end-of-half and end-of-game situations, etc.).
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