The shift to analytics in basketball has fueled a movement toward three pointers. There is no doubt that the University of Virginia men’s basketball team have used shots from beyond the arc to its advantage.
As the Cavaliers walk onto the court for the NCAA Final on Monday night, they come armed with an analytics weapon that has helped them sink more three-pointers than the vast majority of teams in Division I basketball. As of Apr. 4, the team had the seventh highest three-pointer percentage in the NCAA. UVA coach Tony Bennett still holds the NCAA individual record for three-point field goal percentage (49.