Rims in Scottrade

[uniftw]

The Scottrade Center has very unique rims, at least in my opinion. I can pick those rims sound out from any rims in the nation.

The shooting swing in the ISU/UNI game really made me wonder if there was a difference in the rims tightness. I watched small parts of each half again and listened to the rims. There was a very distinct sound difference between the two rims.

I started digging in to the numbers to see if I was just imagining things or if there might be something too it. The numbers seem to point to one rim being much more forgiving than the other.

Left/Right reflect TV side - left is lower seeded side of arena and right is higher seed

Field Goals
Left 172-446 (38.5%)
Right 187-420 (44.5%)

3 point shots
Left - 44-154 (28.5%)
Right - 60-150 (40.0%

Free Throws
Left - 102-150 (68.0%)
Right - 117-167 (70.1%)


Numbers seem to indicate that jumpers were greatly affected on that side of the arena. Made me as I starting looking at the numbers



CONSPIRACY TO GET THE HIGHER SEED TO WIN!

[unipanther99]

Someone should have put Ollie on their shoulders.

[ahunte1]

Wow. The rims there are incredibly soft, but I've never heard of a difference between the two before. If you hit the front of the rim with any backspin at all, it's going in.

[uniftw]

Wow. The rims there are incredibly soft, but I've never heard of a difference between the two before. If you hit the front of the rim with any backspin at all, it's going in.

I don't know if they are. I would assume they aren't.

I've just never seen this kind of discrepancy between two ends of the court for that many games before.

It looked like, and was statistically harder, to score on that one end.

Maybe if I looked at all UNI home games I'd see a similar trend....?

[Rambler63]

If it was a conspiracy to get higher seeds to win, it mostly backfired. Lower seeds won in 4 of the 9 games, tied for most ever.

[Ricardo del Rio]

The Scottrade Center has very unique rims, at least in my opinion. I can pick those rims sound out from any rims in the nation.

The shooting swing in the ISU/UNI game really made me wonder if there was a difference in the rims tightness. I watched small parts of each half again and listened to the rims. There was a very distinct sound difference between the two rims.

I started digging in to the numbers to see if I was just imagining things or if there might be something too it. The numbers seem to point to one rim being much more forgiving than the other.

Left/Right reflect TV side - left is lower seeded side of arena and right is higher seed

Field Goals
Left 172-446 (38.5%)
Right 187-420 (44.5%)

3 point shots
Left - 44-154 (28.5%)
Right - 60-150 (40.0%

Free Throws
Left - 102-150 (68.0%)
Right - 117-167 (70.1%)


Numbers seem to indicate that jumpers were greatly affected on that side of the arena. Made me as I starting looking at the numbers



CONSPIRACY TO GET THE HIGHER SEED TO WIN!

This is just a WAG, but could background have an effect?

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[Khan4Cats]

The whole premise is off since the higher seeds don't always sit on the same side of the court. Wichita was slated to always have the bench at the one end of the arena, while UNI had the same bench at the other end for all three games.

[UNIFanSince1983]

The whole premise is off since the higher seeds don't always sit on the same side of the court. Wichita was slated to always have the bench at the one end of the arena, while UNI had the same bench at the other end for all three games.

Yeah I was about to say Wichita was definitely at the other end for their game against Illinois State. You beat me to it