4 minutes is not a lot of basketball to extrapolate from, but I think either of these teams would have a very, very hard time scoring against us.
Thoughts on the play-in game to determine Duke's upcoming opponent here.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
4 minutes is not a lot of basketball to extrapolate from, but I think either of these teams would have a very, very hard time scoring against us.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
I see from a brief look at Kenpom that my 4 minute observation is consistent with a season's worth of data:
Winthrop - 92.8 points per 100 possessions, ranked 307th in the country
Ark-PB - 93.4 points per 100 possessions, ranked 302nd in the country
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
typically i root for the team with the best player name when i don't know them. it's a tough call between mantoris and lebaron
Neither of these teams shoot very well. I think they'd both have a hard time scoring 60 points against us.
APB's offense seems to consist of clearing out the paint to let someone try to drive on his defender. Help-side defense should really make it difficult for them to score, and in a pinch "Orange" would shut them down.
Winthrop, on the other hand, looks like the have trouble driving, but their passes are not crisp and passing lanes are not open.
I'm encouraged by this game.
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Hopefully this means we can get some good bench play and keep the Big Three rested as much as possible. The second round game scares me if we play Louisville so the more rest the better. Duke does need Scheyer to come out of his scoring slump. His shot in the tournament had no legs behind them.
GO DUKE!!
The Terrapin Assassin
It looks as though both teams would allow us to shoot unmolested threes. And if we miss, we have some pretty fair rebounders. Maybe, as a previous poster suggested, we can rest some players in this game.
Neither of these teams is Belmont. Both are below 200 in the Pomeroy Rankings. We've played 4 200+ teams this year:
UNCG: 96-62
Radford: 104-67
Gardner-Webb: 113-68
Penn: 114-55
We scored 141.86 points per 100 possessions against such opponents, and allowed 83.72.
I'm not saying the team shouldn't take them seriously. But I'm saying we should expect a 25+ point win. I'm also saying that we could have a complete and utter offensive meltdown, play average defense (by our standards) and win by 10+.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
I always thought the #1 overall team in the tourney got to play the winner of the play-in game. Why do we get to play them?