Gonna Be Bombs Away This Year

[Mavric]

The Huskers’ 28.4 percent shooting on three-pointers last season ranked No. 337 among 345 NCAA Division I teams, and was their worst mark since the 2002-03 team shot 27.6 percent.

That Nebraska shot 22 percent on three-point shooting over four games of an August exhibition tour of Spain didn’t exactly ease concerns, either.

Miles pointed to the greater distance of the three-point arc for international play and travel-weary legs among reasons for the poor shooting, which he’d hoped, obviously, would’ve been better.

“I’m a little worried about it,” Miles said, “but not crazy hung up.”

Miles said Nebraska last season put so much pressure on its defense because of its inability to make threes. The Huskers also didn’t get to the free-throw line — a key strategy of Miles’ offense — with the same frequency as the previous season. Scoring droughts ensued.

“We have to make more outside shots,” Miles said. “We just can’t be a team that goes out and lays an egg every night on the three-point shooting. We made a concerted effort, I think, to practice and really dedicate ourselves more and more to making the three.

 

LJS