How was our defense?

I generally put little emphasis on scoring defense, since that is affected so much by the pace of the offenses. However, opponents' shooting percentages is a very important stat that I watch closely. Defense has been one of the hallmarks of Shields teams. How did we do last year? Overall, very good. We were second in overall shooting percentage defense with 42.8% behind Georgia State. However, there is a lot of room for improvement because our perimeter defense was not nearly as good. We were 7th in the league at 35.0%. That has to get  better, because in today's game, if you cannot defend the arc, you are D-E-A-D. (Interestingly, Georgia State's situation mirrored ours, because they were only 6th in 3-point defense.)