Or at least claims to be.

But in context, this seems (sadly for us) amusing given that Bama shot way beyond the mean all game:

The curious thing about the Tide’s onslaught was that Sears, their leading scorer, hadn’t been able to hit the broad side of a barn in weeks. Over his last six games, he’d tried 35 shots from behind the arc and made just five of them—a dismal 14%. But Oats, a former high school math teacher, told Sears to take comfort in a core tenet of statistics.

“There’s a thing called regression to the mean,” Oats told him.