actually i feel like clowning you, so here:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...-pace/1704623/
From 2012.
"The climb in scoring has been a trend since the 2007. season. Prior to that fall, the national scoring average had only twice climbed above 26.9 points a game since the NCAA began tracking the statistic in 1937."
This is an extremely recent trend, and even then, only up to 29 points a game. Hardly a 40-point shootout average.