The winning formula

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In tomorrow's DP, I have a column about Penn, Princeton and the Ivy League title race. I tried to find a statistical indicator of why the Tigers have turned it around in the Ivy season, and I think I found it. I won't give my column away, but it has to do with the team's combination of scoring from three, two and the free-throw line.

So I decided to look at Penn's balance of ones, twos and threes. Here's what I found:

In Penn's 12 wins, they score 19 percent of their points from the free-throw line, 51 percent off two-pointers and 30 percent from three.

In the team's six losses, however, they get 13 percent of their scoring from one-pointers, 61 percent from two-pointers and 26 from three-pointers.

I guess this means that Penn may live and die by the three more than we previously thought.