There was once a time where we questioned whether jump shooting teams could win championships, and considered ‘living and dying by the three’ to be beneath ‘great’ teams. That time is over. The future belongs to 3.
The Villanova Wildcats now hold the high mark for largest proportion of shots from three for a team that went on to make the NCAA Tournament. They join a group of only four other teams that took more than half of their shots from from deep, with the 2005-06 West Virginia Mountaineers being the only member of the group to come from a major conference.