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<blockquote data-quote="Winter Tim" data-source="post: 129246899" data-attributes="member: 1772878">I am excited to see WVU play in the Tourney. But it seems like something is wrong with the product (not Rich Rod).EXCERPT&gt;&gt;&gt;...Division I men's basketball has never been less appealing. Scoring is down: Teams averaged 67.6 points a game through February, according to the N.C.A.A. If that average holds through the end of the tournament, it will be the second-lowest number since 1952 and part of a trend in which scoring has generally fallen from a peak of 76.7 points per team, per game, in 1990-91.The game is as slow as it has ever been: Teams are averaging fewer than 65 possessions per 40 minutes, according to the statistics site <a href="http://kenpom.com/">KenPom.com</a>. That is easily the lowest since 2002, and probably the lowest since at least the 1940s.......College basketball's parched state of play has led to what is widely considered ugly basketball. Virginia's opponents averaged a little more than 50 points this season. Last month, the score at halftime of Utah and Oregon State was 16-14. In late December, Loyola Marymount and Nebraska headed to overtime tied at 35-35.&quot;Some people like Rembrandt, and some like Picasso,&quot; Paul Brazeau, the Atlantic Coast Conference's head of men's basketball operations, said while defending sixth-ranked Virginia's style of play......Jay Bilas, an ESPN college basketball analyst, warned of complacency.&quot;People are starting to vote with their feet,&quot; he said.Average attendance at Division I men's games has declined for the seventh straight season...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Winter Tim, post: 129246899, member: 1772878"] I am excited to see WVU play in the Tourney. But it seems like something is wrong with the product (not Rich Rod). EXCERPT >>>...Division I men's basketball has never been less appealing. Scoring is down: [B]Teams averaged 67.6 points a game[/B] through February, according to the N.C.A.A. If that average holds through the end of the tournament, [B]it will be the second-lowest number since 1952[/B] and part of a trend in which scoring has generally fallen from a peak of 76.7 points per team, per game, in 1990-91. The game is as slow as it has ever been: [B]Teams are averaging fewer than 65 possessions per 40 minutes[/B], according to the statistics site [URL=http://kenpom.com/]KenPom.com[/URL]. That is easily the lowest since 2002, and [B]probably the lowest since at least the 1940s[/B].... ...College basketball's parched state of play has led to what is widely considered ugly basketball. Virginia's opponents averaged a little more than 50 points this season. Last month, the score at halftime of Utah and Oregon State was 16-14. In late December, Loyola Marymount and Nebraska headed to overtime tied at 35-35. "Some people like Rembrandt, and some like Picasso," Paul Brazeau, the Atlantic Coast Conference's head of men's basketball operations, said while defending sixth-ranked Virginia's style of play... ...Jay Bilas, an ESPN college basketball analyst, warned of complacency. "People are starting to vote with their feet," he said. Average attendance at Division I men's games has declined for the seventh straight season... [/QUOTE]

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