Wednesday, October 30, 2013

TAT: By the Numbers - The Bye Week and More


These stats were originally compiled for the October 30, 2013 issue of The Arkansas Traveler.

214 - Total points scored in the men’s basketball team’s Red-White game Sunday. Of the 15 players who saw action, 10 scored in double figures, while five scored more than 20 points.
28 - Combined points scored by the three Arkansas freshmen. Bobby Portis scored 18 points, while Moses Kingsley and Manuale Watkins chipped in six and four points, respectively.
4 - Times an Arkansas athlete has been named the Southeastern Conference cross country runner of the week. Senior Kemoy Campbell won the award after winning the Wisconsin adidas Invitational Oct. 19.
13 - Games decided by one goal for the Arkansas soccer team. The Razorbacks are 11-7 overall and 8-5 in one-goal games.
4 - Event sweeps of the top three places by the Arkansas swimming and diving team in their dual meet against Nebraska. They finished first, second and third in the 1,650-yard freestyle, 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 breaststroke.
2 - Double-doubles by junior Meredith Hayes over the weekend for the Arkansas volleyball team. She had 21 kills and 14 digs against Texas A&M and 22 kills and 11 digs against LSU.
1 - Loss by Bret Bielema following a bye week during his seven-year tenure as head coach at Wisconsin. He is 4-1 in games following bye weeks.
43.4-12.2 - Average score of the five games following bye weeks that Bret Bielema coached at Wisconsin. That is an average margin of 31.2 points.
10 - Teams in the FBS, including Arkansas, that played a game in each of the first eight weeks of the season without a bye week. The only other SEC team that did this was LSU. There are 126 teams in the FBS.
.425 - Combined winning percentage, through eight games, of those 10 teams. Only two teams had winning records: LSU at 6-2 and Ball State at 7-1.
50.7 - Points per game scored by No. 11 Auburn in its last three games. The Tigers scored 62 points against Western Carolina and have scored 45 points in back-to-back games, against No. 7 Texas A&M and Florida International.
0 - Times Arkansas has allowed 50 or more points in three consecutive games in its 119 year history. No. 14 South Carolina and No. 1 Alabama each scored 52 points against the Razorbacks in their last two games.

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