Three Point Shooting in College Basketball

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How has moving the three point line back a foot impacted the game? Use the StatSheet Three Point Tracker
to analyze how NCAA Division I teams are performing compared to previous seasons.

One reason for moving the line back was to open up the floor more. So has rebounding changed?
See the Rebound Summary.

NCAA Summary | Team Summary | Rebounds Summary | |

NCAA Division I Overall 3-Point Percentage By Season:

2003-2004

34.49%

2004-2005

34.61%

2005-2006

34.81%

2006-2007

34.81%

2007-2008

35.02%

2008-2009

34.18%

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3-Point Shooting by Month

	November		December		January		February		March		April
Season	Att PG	Pct	Att PG	Pct	Att PG	Pct	Att PG	Pct	Att PG	Pct	Att PG	Pct
2008-09	37.6	33.7	37.1	34.0	36.1	34.3	36.2	34.8	37.1	33.5	38.7	33.1
2007-08	39.0	34.6	38.0	35.4	38.4	34.9	37.8	35.2	38.0	34.7	40.4	33.1
2006-07	38.5	34.1	38.2	35.0	37.5	34.8	37.2	35.0	37.6	35.0	41.0	34.1
2005-06	36.5	33.8	36.9	34.9	36.9	34.9	36.9	35.3	37.6	34.1	32.0	29.1
2004-05	36.7	34.4	37.0	34.7	36.5	34.5	36.4	34.8	37.4	33.9	49.7	34.9
2003-04	37.0	33.6	36.9	34.3	36.1	34.6	36.5	35.0	37.6	34.0	34.8	30.2
2002-03	36.7	34.0	37.2	34.4	35.6	34.7	36.1	35.3	35.9	34.3	34.3	35.8
2001-02	37.1	33.9	37.2	34.3	36.8	34.5	36.2	34.6	36.6	34.6	32.0	37.5
2000-01	36.3	33.7	35.9	34.6	34.9	34.5	35.6	34.8	35.7	34.2	49.0	26.5
1999-00	35.2	32.7	35.8	34.3	35.1	34.6	35.4	34.8	36.7	34.0	39.0	29.9
1998-99	35.1	33.9	35.1	34.1	34.5	34.4	35.1	34.2	37.4	33.2	-	-
1997-98	34.7	33.5	35.3	34.0	34.0	34.6	35.2	34.8	36.6	33.2	-	-
1996-97	35.0	33.3	34.6	33.8	34.0	33.8	34.0	34.6	34.4	33.6	-	-

3-Point Shooting by Class

	Fr	So	Jr	Sr
Season	Pct	Pct	Pct	Pct
2008-09	32.5	33.9	34.6	35.1
2007-08	33.6	34.8	35.3	35.9
2006-07	33.3	34.8	35.9	36.0
2005-06	33.3	34.7	35.7	36.1
2004-05	33.1	34.5	35.8	35.6
2003-04	32.9	34.9	35.0	35.4
2002-03	33.6	34.3	35.3	36.0
2001-02	32.6	34.9	34.9	35.8
2000-01	33.2	35.2	34.8	35.2
1999-00	33.3	34.5	34.7	35.6
1998-99	33.2	34.1	34.5	35.8
1997-98	32.6	34.2	35.7	36.4
1996-97	32.7	34.3	35.6	35.8

Top Returning 3-Point Shooters from 2007-08 Season

		2007-2008			2008-2009
Player	Team	Made	Att	Pct	Made	Att	Pct
Stephen Curry	DAV	162	369	43.9	130	336	38.7
Robert Vaden	UAB	142	355	40.0	112	324	34.6
Garrison Carr	AMER	135	299	45.2	114	293	38.9
David Holston	CHIST	130	322	40.4	146	394	37.1
Lester Hudson	TENNM	124	320	38.8	106	299	35.5
A.J. Abrams	TEX	118	309	38.2	105	265	39.6
Josh Akognon	CSF	116	295	39.3	136	366	37.2
Stephen McDowell	CHAT	108	293	36.9	135	318	42.5
Kyle McAlarney	ND	108	245	44.1	124	293	42.3
Grayson Flittner	GWEBB	107	266	40.2	72	197	36.5
Dionte Christmas	TU	104	282	36.9	107	304	35.2
Ricky Harris	MASS	104	278	37.4	87	225	38.7
Joe Zeglinski	HART	103	251	41.0	33	90	36.7
Ryan Toolson	UVST	103	236	43.6	74	190	38.9
Andrew Brown	LAF	99	247	40.1	66	226	29.2
Jimmy Baron	URI	99	244	40.6	118	260	45.4
Roge'r Guignard	UTARL	99	258	38.4	71	194	36.6
Marquis Weddle	TENNM	99	294	33.7	93	273	34.1
Alex Ruoff	WVU	98	239	41.0	88	236	37.3
Craig Moore	NW	97	242	40.1	110	271	40.6
Deonta Vaughn	CINC	97	244	39.8	81	240	33.8
Marquis Sullivan	LOYMD	94	215	43.7	63	167	37.7
Josh Alexander	SFA	94	229	41.0	72	212	34.0
Josh Mayo	UIC	94	200	47.0	72	186	38.7
Jack McClinton	MIAMI	94	220	42.7	101	223	45.3
Gary Patterson	IUPUI	93	209	44.5	47	114	41.2
Corey Lowe	BU	92	248	37.1	85	228	37.3
Chris Harris	NAVY	91	218	41.7	85	231	36.8

20 of the top 28 three-point shooting players from 2007-08 have a worse shooting percentage this season.

Top 3-Point Shooting Teams from 2007-08 Season

	2007-2008			2008-2009
Team	Made	Att	Pct	Made	Att	Pct
IUPUI	246	582	42.3	147	436	33.7
New Mexico	271	646	42.0	239	627	38.1
UC-Santa Barbara	242	590	41.0	163	488	33.4
Cornell	228	558	40.9	241	587	41.1
American University	260	638	40.8	230	615	37.4
Brown	227	556	40.8	163	514	31.7
North Dakota State	192	472	40.7	238	578	41.2
Notre Dame	274	677	40.5	319	802	39.8
Pacific	234	580	40.3	243	631	38.5
Utah State	207	516	40.1	222	563	39.4
Vanderbilt	303	760	39.9	190	561	33.9
North Texas	204	513	39.8	212	592	35.8
Rider	242	608	39.8	225	638	35.3
Lafayette	299	754	39.7	232	737	31.5
Kansas	271	683	39.7	217	585	37.1
Arkansas State	209	527	39.7	144	442	32.6
Texas-Pan American	246	619	39.7	119	399	29.8
La Salle	255	648	39.4	168	501	33.5
Portland State	294	749	39.3	317	835	38.0
Boise State	271	690	39.3	200	584	34.2
Western Kentucky	270	687	39.3	266	714	37.3
Utah	242	615	39.3	242	655	36.9
Quinnipiac	178	454	39.2	139	438	31.7
Oregon	279	711	39.2	237	662	35.8
UIC	237	606	39.1	199	545	36.5

23 of the top 25 three-point shooting teams from 2007-08 have a worse shooting percentage this season.