New uniform numbers for next season!
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Basketball leagues at all levels in the U.S. traditionally use single and double digits between 0 and 5 (i.e. 0,00, 1–5, 10–15, 20–25, 30–35, 40–45 and 50–55).
This would suggest there are 32 numbers available.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/...l-jerseys-you-can-count-them-on-one-hand.html
This is good because they would start to stink after awhile...or at the very least, the colors would fade badly...
The software the NCAA uses for statistics cannot distinguish between #0 and #00. You cannot have one of each on a team. You can use either, but the program is going to see both as zero.
We've got to be the worst team in the country at drawing charges the last 5-6 years.
37 numbers to start.
Take out 14, 20, 32, 35, and 44 -- assuming that those NUMBERS are retired (in addition to the "jerseys").
There are 32 numbers left.
I’m assuming you mean ISU for those numbers? Was thinking not all the numbers were retired, only 1 or two were. Thought the rest were jerseys.
For 37, I was just going with how many total possible before a team retired any.
EDIT: we have 0 numbers retired so 37 are technically possible but think something big would have to happen to take a number from one in the rafters.
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I thought that's what CCG was aiming at -- that ISU only has 32 numbers available.
As far as numbers retired vs. jerseys retired, it's a matter of semantics. You can say that the jerseys are retired (not the number), but look at how long it's been since each of those has been worn:
Last to wear 14 - Hornacek
Last to wear 20 - Thompson (except for a couple of games when Eli Parker did)
Last to wear 32 - Hakeem Abdel-Khaliq, in 1997 (immediately after Hoiberg)
Last to wear 35 - Sol Harris, in 1995 (Mike Bergman was the only other, post-Stevens)
Last to wear 44 - Grayer
I agree. Notice they have not dared trot another #31 out there, though.
I have always thought a drawn offensive foul should count as a steal.
Nixon played in 27 games his junior year.
He drew 55 offensive fouls.
He had 40 steals.
95 / 27 = 3.51 "extra" possessions generated for his team per game
Last man to wear the numbers above, if I remember correctly...
#0 -- Jordan Railey
#4 -- Donovan Jackson
#11 -- Monté Morris
#13 -- Jakolby Long (and before that was Bryce Dejean-Jones)
#22 -- drawing a blank here, maybe Bryan Petersen?
That reminds me of this tweet from the other day.
I always thought it was so the refs could report them with one hand like they're trained to do, but I could be wrong. It's dumb.
