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Purdue shows you can shoot 3s and play defense

Our habits when talking about college basketball reveal assumptions we may not even realize we have. Take Kansas.

Bill Self frets about KU having to "go small" and needing to shoot a lot of 3s, because you just know what that's going to do to your team's defense. Sounds straightforward enough.

Or, at the other extreme, consider Virginia. The Cavaliers play phenomenal D, but of course Tony Bennett's team is prone to "dry spells" on offense, ones that have cost the Hoos dearly in March. This stuff is all just common sense, right?

Matt Painter says nonsense.