He led the league in field-goal accuracy three times.

But in the second half, their field-goal accuracy tailed off to 25 percent.

Its field-goal accuracy in the half was 20 percent.

Haywood, the 268-pound center who leads the nation in field-goal accuracy at 71.3 percent, had a different take.

This season, Coach Mike Deane's squad led the nation by holding opponents to 35.7 percent field-goal accuracy.

For his last three years at the University of Washington, MacCulloch led the nation in field-goal accuracy, averaging 66.4 percent.

But North Carolina, the national leader in field-goal accuracy at 50.3 percent, made just 37.5 percent of its shots against Wake Forest.

This season Pennefather averaged 22.6 points, 9.4 rebounds and 64 percent field-goal accuracy in Big East play.

The upward trend has been so steady that the 18 best seasons for overall field-goal accuracy have come in the past 18 seasons.

But Vinatieri, like Vanderjagt, has had his field-goal accuracy bounce up and down.