What we've done well:
Take care of the ball - top 20 in turnovers, turnover margin and A/TO ratio
Generate turnovers - top 30 in turnovers forced and blocked shots, top 10 in steals
Scoring - top 30 in ppg and fastbreak ppg
What we haven't done well:
Free throws - 200+ nationally at 69.4%, but if you take Cam out we are nearly 73%. Guess who leads us in FT attempts?
Rebounding - about 200 in rebound margin, +2 per game
Still not a good three point shooting team, but at least better than past years
What SMU has done well:
Offensive rebounding is top 20
Scoring offense top 15
Top 50ish in 3 pt shooting, turnover margin, FT attempts and FT%.
Do not expect them to shoot a lot of threes, but they shoot it very well (queue up 35 attempts now that I said that)
What SMU hasn't done well:
They foul a lot. Nearly 20 times per game.
Nothing else is really egregiously bad. They haven't been great defending the 3, but you don't have to against us.
Neither team has played a strong schedule thus far. The only halfway decent team SMU has played is Butler, but they are a mid to lower end Big East team this year. Butler beat them by 11 in Indianapolis.
Being a true road game, this feels like a tossup, hence us being a -1.5 favorite while its basically 50/50 on the ESPN predictor. Reminds me of the Ga Tech game last year where they hadn't played well and we walked in to the Thriller Dome undefeated and really weren't much of a threat to ever win that game. Hopefully we get a different result tonight.
Let's say Dogs 76, Mustangs 73.
Take care of the ball - top 20 in turnovers, turnover margin and A/TO ratio
Generate turnovers - top 30 in turnovers forced and blocked shots, top 10 in steals
Scoring - top 30 in ppg and fastbreak ppg
What we haven't done well:
Free throws - 200+ nationally at 69.4%, but if you take Cam out we are nearly 73%. Guess who leads us in FT attempts?
Rebounding - about 200 in rebound margin, +2 per game
Still not a good three point shooting team, but at least better than past years
What SMU has done well:
Offensive rebounding is top 20
Scoring offense top 15
Top 50ish in 3 pt shooting, turnover margin, FT attempts and FT%.
Do not expect them to shoot a lot of threes, but they shoot it very well (queue up 35 attempts now that I said that)
What SMU hasn't done well:
They foul a lot. Nearly 20 times per game.
Nothing else is really egregiously bad. They haven't been great defending the 3, but you don't have to against us.
Neither team has played a strong schedule thus far. The only halfway decent team SMU has played is Butler, but they are a mid to lower end Big East team this year. Butler beat them by 11 in Indianapolis.
Being a true road game, this feels like a tossup, hence us being a -1.5 favorite while its basically 50/50 on the ESPN predictor. Reminds me of the Ga Tech game last year where they hadn't played well and we walked in to the Thriller Dome undefeated and really weren't much of a threat to ever win that game. Hopefully we get a different result tonight.
Let's say Dogs 76, Mustangs 73.
