Advanced stat of the week: true shooting percentage

This is the second of a weekly installment where we will dive deeper into the numbers of Texas Tech basketball. Each week, a different advanced statistic will be presented, explained and viewed within the context of the Red Raider season. Our analysis will go beyond the familiar numbers of points per game or field goal percentage. Those long-kept statistics are nice to look at, but hardly shed light on the entire story of what takes place on the hardwood. If there is a stat you want to be featured next week, just leave a comment below.

The stat

This week we are going to look at true shooting percentage (TS%). The official definition of TS% is “a measure of shooting efficiency that takes into…