{"id":564,"date":"2009-12-11T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/excerpts-from-1953-team-stats\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:00:36","slug":"excerpts-from-1953-team-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/excerpts-from-1953-team-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from 1953: team stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is part of a continuing series examining pages from the 1953 Official NCAA Basketball Guide.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the stats section in the book was one of the first things I turned to. If it was possible to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketballprospectus.com\/unfiltered?p=381\">get 51 rebounds in a game<\/a>, then you can probably make the inference that a lot of shots did not go in back then. Indeed, as page 29 of the Guide shows, only three teams in all the land made over 40% of their field goal attempts. The &#8220;dunk shot&#8221; had not yet been popularized, obviously. In addition, no team could crack the 70% mark in free throw accuracy. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, in today&#8217;s NCAA each basketball program is classified into one of three divisions for basketball. In &#8216;53, it was every school for itself. The intro to the major-college statistics section describes exactly how classification was determined.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Approximately 150 college basketball teams, which play most of their games against each other, are classified as &#8220;major-college&#8221; teams. They represent the field of so-called &#8220;big time&#8221; college basketball, as judged by the class of competition rather than seasonal strength. Teams of all other four-year colleges comprise the &#8220;small-college&#8221; field. An official list is issued annually.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the thumbnail for a life-size image of page 29 and make note of that wacky defense Ole Miss is playing, guarding zones on the floor instead of individual opponents!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/images\/1953-stats.gif\"><img src=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/images\/1953-stats-thumb.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a continuing series examining pages from the 1953 Official NCAA Basketball Guide. Naturally, the stats section in the book was one of the first things I turned to. If it was possible to get 51 rebounds in a game, then you can probably make the inference that a lot of shots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}