NU leads Division I in free throw percentage at .808. Pepperdine, who used to be over .840, is second at .801. We're second in the CAA, and we combine with Northeastern for a .788 free throw percentage, which has a chance at being the best by a pair of teams in the same conference. It slightly trails Summit League teams Western Illinois and North Dakota State, who are both at .789. We're 13th in Division I, and Charleston is 16th. Making it the top three teams in a conference keeps it close, with the CAA at .782, and the Summit League at .783 adding in North Dakota's .772, which is slightly ahead of South Dakota's .772. The Summit League has 9 of 353 teams, but has 4 of the top 19 in free throw percentage. From Charleston's point of view, I wonder how many times a team has played consecutive games with as high with as a high a free throw percentage as they have but a worse free throw percentage than their opponent.triplec2195 wrote: Note if the converse was true and they were in the bonus almost definitively we would have been in trouble because most of their players especially Roland and Brace are automatic from the foul line.
In conference free throw percentage, the CAA leads at .7397. The Summit League is second at .7378. The Western Athletic (WAC), which at one point needed five or six decimal places to be separated from the CAA, is fourth at .7233. If it ends this way, it would be the second consecutive season that the CAA was first and the Summit League was second.