Someone on the Rebkell board tends to do comparisons of the men's and women's tourneys, but they came up with some interesting stats related to the scoring in both tourneys.

Asked the question how PPG compared to previous years.

(for the women) We're actually up a little over last year's 65.9. The record high is 75.0 set in 1988. The record low was 63.1 set in 2007. Median is 69.5.

The men's 69.2 is also up slightly. They were 69.1 last year. The record high was 84.5, set in 1970. The record low is 39.4, set in 1940. Median is 71.0.

Then the followup related to when the most scoring happened:

Four of the five highest scoring men's tournaments came in the 1970's. 15 of the top 20 are pre-shot clock, 16 of 20 are pre-three pointer. The most recent to crack the top 20 was 1992.

The women's tournament is similar. The top eight highest scoring tournaments are all 1992 and earlier.



I would never have guessed that the highest scoring tourneys would have happened before the shot clock or the three point shot. It "feels" like teams are raining threes, but the actual scoring is much lower.

The shot clock surprises me, but not so much the 3 pointers, and especially in the women's game. There just aren't enough good shooters to spread out amongst so many college teams, so you have a bunch of bad shooters chucking up a bunch of 3PA that don't have a prayer of going in, so (without doing the research to back it up, so this comment could well blow up in my face spectacularly lol) shooting percentages intuitively seem like they should be lower (though true shooting % less so, and rules changes probably also mitigate this greatly). Add in one-and-dones and less attention to fundamentals, and this kind of makes sense. Except for the shot clock and the rules changes

I mean look at the NBA. There are starting to be high scoring games again, but it still doesn't compare to the past

They're definitely not raining threes. The reason devout NBA fans don't like college ball as much is because the shooting percentage is pretty horrible, especially from 3.

TechDawgMc said:

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Someone on the Rebkell board tends to do comparisons of the men's and women's tourneys, but they came up with some interesting stats related to the scoring in both tourneys.

Asked the question how PPG compared to previous years.

(for the women) We're actually up a little over last year's 65.9. The record high is 75.0 set in 1988. The record low was 63.1 set in 2007. Median is 69.5.

The men's 69.2 is also up slightly. They were 69.1 last year. The record high was 84.5, set in 1970. The record low is 39.4, set in 1940. Median is 71.0.

Then the followup related to when the most scoring happened:

Four of the five highest scoring men's tournaments came in the 1970's. 15 of the top 20 are pre-shot clock, 16 of 20 are pre-three pointer. The most recent to crack the top 20 was 1992.

The women's tournament is similar. The top eight highest scoring tournaments are all 1992 and earlier.



I would never have guessed that the highest scoring tourneys would have happened before the shot clock or the three point shot. It "feels" like teams are raining threes, but the actual scoring is much lower.

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I would guess that maybe there is a lot of better defense these days. But that's just a guess.