Stats galore - projecting Uconn full year stats

[UcMiami]

So I started wondering where this team stacks up statistically against other Uconn teams and did a little research projecting a 40 game season (which gives a definite advantage to this team in raw numbers.)
Format is Stat: Uconn Record #: year: This year projection: Rank for Uconn
Wins: 39: 3 times: 40: #1
Most Points: 3394: 2001-2: 3368: #2
Scoring Ave: 91.2: 1998-9: 84.2: #6
Scoring Mgn: 35.4: 2001-2: 36.3: #1
Scoring Def: 46.2: 2009-10: 47.9: #3
% Defense: .300: 2009-10: .308: #3
FG made: 1278: 2001-2: 1282: #1
FT Made: 663: 1997-8: 520: #10
FG percent: .539: 1999-00: .501 #11
3P Made: 325: 2012-3: 284: #2?
3P percent: .463: 1988-9: .344: ---
FT percent: .765: 2010-11: .758: #4
Rebounds: 1776: 1994-5: 1740: #3
Reb Ave: 56.2: 1975-6: 43.5: #10
Reb Mgn: 15.5: 2001-2: 9.42: ---
Blocks: 250: 1994-5: 356: #1
Steals: 477: 1997-8: 402: #8
Assists: 846: 2001-2: 850: #1

Red lines represent potential new NCAA records or tie records.

Scoring average, Free throws, 3P (#, %), Rebounds (#, Margin, Avg), and Steals are all probably beyond the team, but a number of records are approachable as well as the ones they are likely to break. Scoring defense and percentage defense are two that are pretty close and with a string of relatively easy conference games coming up they may get to.
Anyway - interesting to look at where the team stands in historic perspective. The blocks number is really impressive as they are likely to blow the old NCAA record to pieces in both total and # per game with no individual approaching either Uconn or NCAA records.

 

[DobbsRover2]

With likely less than half the games played, not sure how things will turn out. The blocks is an interesting one though. Lobo and Wolters rejected 218 shots between them and picked up 87% of the UConn blocks in 1994-95. So having three instead of two comparatively equal blockers for the Huskies this year seems to be giving them the perfect trinity (plus having Saniya to add a little oomph to the Breanna-Stef-Kiah show). Having possibly 7 more games to work with than Rebecca and Kara's squad's 33 also helps of course, as the bpg is 8.89 this year to 7.57 for the old squad.

 

[Icebear]

Don't forget that shot blocking beast MoJet.

 

[UcMiami]

The NCAA record is Baylor with 310 in 40 games so 7.75/game. Lots of games to play, but 8.89/game is impressive and if they maintain close to that, the record should fall. I think it helps that none of them are 'dominant' shot blockers - with Griner, players just stayed away from the paint. With Uconn - they think, heck, I've got Stef beat, and then Stewart or Stokes arrives and rejects the shot.

 

[meyers7]

Blocks: 250: 1994-5: 356: #1

WOW! That just blows the UCONN blocks record clean out of the water.

 

[DobbsRover2]

One thing that always is a question with the stats is how accurate and consistent they are across time and venues, as it is humans doing the counting and making the judgment calls, and as with Schuey in the 2000 NC game, some blocks might be missed. Blocks, steals, and sometimes turnovers weren't counted back when the UConn program got going in the 1970s, and it makes you wonder how up to snuff the scorers were when they began counting things like blocks at last.

 

[VAMike23]

I wonder if by the time she's finished, MoJeff won't have piled up more blocks than any just about every other guard in UCONN history. I could be wrong.

I bet DT had a good # of blocks during her 4 years, maybe (probably?) more than Mo, but Mo really hustles and certainly gets more than her share for a 5'7" player.

 

[UcMiami]

WOW! That just blows the UCONN blocks record clean out of the water.

And if they maintain, the NCAA record as well.

One thing that always is a question with the stats is how accurate and consistent they are across time and venues, as it is humans doing the counting and making the judgment calls, and as with Schuey in the 2000 NC game, some blocks might be missed. Blocks, steals, and sometimes turnovers weren't counted back when the UConn program got going in the 1970s, and it makes you wonder how up to snuff the scorers were when they began counting things like blocks at last.

Official scores are local and probably inconsistent across the country during the same year, let alone across decades, though the definition of the stats remains pretty constant. I have often wondered if a team with a great assist guard doesn't end up with a scorer who is more likely to award an assist based on continuation for example. And I think blocks get missed sometimes when they are finger tip alterations rather than emphatic. Also, in a year with major changes in foul definition/focus one would expect fewer steals and increased assists as well as increased offensive numbers and efficiency, but I am not sure that is really the case - there were some anecdotal evidence of this early in the season, but I suspect it had more to do with OOC mismatches than overall yearly numbers.

 

[huskybill]

With likely less than half the games played, not sure how things will turn out. The blocks is an interesting one though. Lobo and Wolters rejected 218 shots between them and picked up 87% of the UConn blocks in 1994-95. So having three instead of two comparatively equal blockers for the Huskies this year seems to be giving them the perfect trinity (plus having Saniya to add a little oomph to the Breanna-Stef-Kiah show). Having possibly 7 more games to work with than Rebecca and Kara's squad's 33 also helps of course, as the bpg is 8.89 this year to 7.57 for the old squad.

If you are talking about the 94-95 squad, they played 35 games.

 

[DobbsRover2]

If you are talking about the 94-95 squad, they played 35 games.

But Kara only played in 33 of them, and like the proverbial tree falling in the forest.....

So unless you want me to send a note off to Kara saying that huskybill wants to count the two games she didn't play in and had no chance to pick up blocks in and have her becoming all ticked off enough to squash you down to size.....

 

[Icebear]

Kara is scared of Bill. Don't bring him up. It is dangerous.