If someone shoots 65% from three but only takes 32 threes all year, that's not a good concept. That's an under utilization of the three point line. At that point the college game had not learned how to maximize the three point line.
Four years later Alford would make 53% of his threes and took 202 of them (and from a farther distant three point line). I assume you are not going to seriously argue that Ted Kitchel's three point game in his last season impacted the team as much as Alford's did.