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I loved this statistic offered by announcer
Thom Brennaman during the Florida-Oklahoma national championship football game.
Brennaman said Florida coach
Urban Meyer told him the Gators win 92 percent of their games when they block a kick.
Sounds insightful, but at the time, Florida was 12-1, which translates to a .923 winning percentage.
So, if the Gators won 92 percent of their games when they blocked a kick, wouldn't they have also won 92 percent of their games when they didn't block a kick?
And now, some local college basketball statistics, without any riddles ...
• Millersville's
Reggie Bates was seventh in PSAC men's basketball in scoring average (18.4), through Tuesday's action.
Makal Stibbins was first in field-goal percentage (.680), fourth in blocked shots (2.0) and sixth in rebounding (8.7).
• Millersville's
Jenna Philo, from McCaskey, was among the PSAC leaders in three categories.
Philo was 11th in assists (3.7 per game), sixth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.6) and ninth in three-point field goals made (1.8).
MU's
Jenna Craig was fifth in rebounding (9.1).
• Franklin & Marshall had two of the Centennial Conference's top 10 scorers in men's basketball.
In statistics through Thursday,
James McNally, a sophomore, was fourth (17.1) and
Georgio Milligan, a freshman, was 10th (14.5).
McNally was also third in field-goal percentage (.607), while Milligan was first in assists (6.40) and steals (2.90).
Among F&M's other league leaders:
Mike Baker, eighth in rebounding (6.8);
Steve Tolliver, first in three-point percentage (.639) and second in three-pointers made (2.3);
Clay Scovill, from Manheim Township, second in free-throw percentage (.867) and fifth in offensive rebounding (2.50); and
Anthony Brooks, fourth in assists (3.86).
• F&M senior
Sarah Meisenberg, the Commonwealth Conference's Player of the Year last season, was third in the league in scoring (16.4), through Thursday.
Meisenberg was second in assists (5.10) and in the top 10 in five other statistical categories.
• Elizabethtown's
Joe Flanagan, from Lancaster Mennonite, was fifth (15.2) in the Commonwealth Conference in scoring, through Thursday, while
Mike Church, from Solanco, was ninth (13.8).
Church also led in blocked shots (1.69) and was seventh in rebounding (6.4). Flanagan was second in three-point percentage (.446) and third in three-pointers made (2.23).
Keith Fogel was first in free-throw percentage (.903) and
Phil Schaffer was second in assists (4.31).
• Elizabethtown's
Megan Quinn, from Penn Manor, was second in the Commonwealth Conference in scoring (15.2).
Quinn was first in offensive rebounding (4.91) and fourth in free-throw percentage (.778) and steals (2.36).
E-town's
Jenn Montague was first in rebounding (9.5), just ahead of Quinn (9.4). Montague was also first in defensive rebounding (4.90).
Jim Hersh is sports editor of the Sunday News. E-mail him at jhersh@lnpnews.com.
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