Best fans in college basketball...Weakest student section

Rhoadhoused

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You're a Clay Aiken if you don't think the student section has any effect on opponents FT shooting. Loss.

It is a statistical fact that home and road teams shoot identical FT percentages over a large sample size. So I guess that makes you Clay Aiken and me....Rueben Studdard?
 

WastedTalent

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Calling out the student section for being bland and unoriginal, then offering up two terrible ideas that may have come from an underclassman in high school.... Cool.
 

CarlHungus

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How about we create the mat of fat. Put a mat out in front of the student section and have fatties stand there jiggling their fat at the shooter during free-throws.

How about the swoon of poon? Just have a bunch of hot girls doing distracting things
 

BBHMagic

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Isn't this the 3rd year in a row we're last in defensive ft%? I'd like to look it up but it's not an easy stat to find.
 

ProtegoTano

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When you can explain to me why the old people sit down after timeouts intended to slow down ISU momentum as well as why the non-students could barely be heard until late in the k-state game while the students were being as loud as they could the entire game. Then, and only then will I accept your criticism.
 

cyguytillidie

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Back in my day we were #1 in free throw defense every year. Visiting teams averaged 0.02% from the free throw line. Get your **** together current students.
 

Rhoadhoused

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Isn't this the 3rd year in a row we're last in defensive ft%? I'd like to look it up but it's not an easy stat to find.

2014 was 327th
2013 was 312th
2012 was 209th
2011 was 151st
2010 was 302nd
2009 was 248th
2008 was 157th
2007 was 302nd
2006 was 215th
2005 was 111th
2004 was 199th
2003 was 28th!!!!!!!!!!
2002 was 205th


I was just going to go until I got to a year where we were good but I figured once I got to 03 I might as well go as far back as Kenpom does since it's only one more year.
 

nallen34

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I don't think the op is saying we have a bad student section, I think all he's saying is that they need to find more original ways to distract free throw shooters. What they are doing obviously isn't having much of an effect on the shooters. Need to find multiple things that are very distracting and rotate those things so that shooters don't get used to one thing and so they are always as uncomfortable as possible.
 

BBHMagic

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2014 was 327th
2013 was 312th
2012 was 209th
2011 was 151st
2010 was 302nd
2009 was 248th
2008 was 157th
2007 was 302nd
2006 was 215th
2005 was 111th
2004 was 199th
2003 was 28th!!!!!!!!!!
2002 was 205th


I was just going to go until I got to a year where we were good but I figured once I got to 03 I might as well go as far back as Kenpom does since it's only one more year.

That is crazy! I think its ludicrous to think our students are to blame since we consistently have some of the best crowds. However that data is too consistent. There has to be something to it, or is it just the old: "We're Iowa State"?
 

TXCyclones

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Funny how it's always someone else's fault. "They" should do something about this issue for "us" so that "we" aren't so bad. OP, what did your last sign say that was so clever? What were you yelling?