"RESEARCHES IN BASKETBALL Page l.

Department of Physical Education, University of
Kansas Lawrence, Kansas.

Forrest C, Allen, Director of Physical Education
and Head Basketball Coach

E. R, Elbel, Assistant Professor of Physical
Education

V. W. Lapp, Assistant Professor of Physical
Education.

"BIG SIX CONFERENCE RESEARCH

"With the elimination of the center jump the desire was
to ascertain facts concerning the so-called fast break that the
new rules might encourage.

"The big Six Confernece coaches agreed in a pre-season
committee meeting to gather and send in certain facts from all
of their conference contests.

"All held balls or jump balls were tossed up at the nearest
6-foot circle. The possibility of scoring from this position was
considered an important finding.

" Thirty conference games were played. There is complete
data from 18 games, incomplete data from 6 games, and no data
was reccived from 6 games.

"Three schools were especially diligent in sending
statistics following cach game, while the other three schools
sent partial but not complete data on some of their games.

"Some rather interesting findings were revealed in that
for Big Six Conference play the average time for each individual
meovement across the division line was 4.27 seconds. The number
of held balls during an entire game in our conference was as-
certained, and lastly the possibility of scoring field goals
after the toss-up, when the held ball was brought to the circle,
was also determined.

"The study is summarized as follows:

"1. Length of time consumed in bringing the ball across
the division line after a goal or free throw had been made;
complete information from 18 games shows that:

(a) the act was performed 586 times for an average of 31.4
times per game.

(b) a total time of 2527.1 seconds was used for an average
of 140.4 seconds per game, or 2 min. 34 sec.

(c) the average time for each individual movement across
the line was 4.37 seconds.

"2. Number and location of held balls during games;
complete information from 24 games shows that:

(a) held balls occured 220 time in one end circle
for an average of 9.1 per game;

(b) held balls occured in the opposite end circle
165 times for an average of 6.8 per game;

(c) held balls occured 52 times in the center circle
for an average of 2.2 per game;

(d) held balls occured for a total of 435 times for
an average of 18.1 times during each game.