The beauty of statistician Dean Oliver’s creation of the “Four Factors” in basketball is that all of the game rests within these measurable traits.
There’s shooting, rebounding, turnovers and free throws. All of what happens in a basketball game falls tidily in those four boxes, with each interacting with the others to produce a game’s final result.
Kansas, for most of the season, has struggled defensively with the shooting percentage part. The Jayhawks have given up a lot of threes — and open ones — a problem that continued in the first half against Marquette in Wednesday’s 77-68 victory.