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Up to #9 in the latest JUCO rankings

Down to #19 in the latest JUCO rankings

Up to #36 in the latest update of the JUCO rankings

I don't think that's what that statistic suggests unless your hypothesis is that Brewton is the second biggest offensive "team player" I agree and I said that in my original post. I just don't think bumping his usage by a couple points in exchange for a bit of efficiency is moving the needle for this team in any meaningful way

I'm high on Skogman and I do think there's a bit of meat on the bone there, but his efficiency would fall off at this point with increased usage. It does for almost everyone which is why I like BartTorvik's PRPG! which factors in ORtg, usage, and competition faced to estimate offensive efficiency. Particularly with Skogman his efficiency would fall of due to the fact that he doesn't create much as of now to post that ORtg. He's done some self-creation in the post which I'd like to see more of, but his shots very much come within the flow of the offense. Skogman is assisted on 74.7% of his field goals, and it would be even higher if there was a way to filter out any putbacks he's gotten on offensive rebounds. All the players that have a higher usage than him are assisted on a lower percentage of their FGM: Brewton: 69.4% Jack: 69.2% Mballa: 50% Williams: 39.8% Segu: 25.3% It's not as simple as giving him the ball more

We've actually been pretty good preventing scoring runs (and bad at going on scoring runs): Granted this is from prior to the Toledo game which was costly

Blue Collar U has already been accepted for the 2022 TBT

Meanwhile the MAC was moving games up that we had to play without Mballa/Fagan/Whitesell. I understand why but they made it so it's a competitive disadvantage to prevent a team-wide outbreak

Yeah he looks more to me like an off-ball guard. He struggles to get by defenders off the bounce at this point, but as a secondary ball handler and shooter he's solid, and the short bench forced him to play there more. I'm concerned if he's our starting PG next year, but I like him overall as a player with all 4 years of eligibility remaining for us. Between he and Skogman we got 31 points from guys who are still freshmen eligibility wise which is encouraging for the long term

Man has our schedule had some teams with some big guys Michigan had 7’1” Dickinson WKU had 7’5” Sharp Even the NAIA team had a 7 footer and now Fisher has a 7’0” 360 lbs kid on their roster: https://athletics.sjfc.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/connor-williams/11118

I just want to point out that Jack was sitting at the scorers table as Brewton hit his first 3, then Whitesell called him back. He has his finger on the pulse

Bona opens as 3.5 point favorites

Yeah I'm sure we could have scheduled a bad D1 team somewhere along the way. My impression of the situation is that we had an agreement with someone more desirable and it fell through which left UB scrambling late. I don't have any inside info, but I find the argument that this is something we wanted to do to be in bad faith based on the information that we have

All this talk about how good Bonaventure has been in the A-10 and your best class of players in 20+ years is staring down the barrel of graduating 0-3 against a lil ol' MAC program. Too bad

It’s wild to me that anyone thinks that 2 non-D1 games was a choice that Whitesell wanted to make. Prior to this year he’s scheduled 11 non-D1 games in 9 seasons. We were literally the last D1 team to announce our full schedule and Point Park was the last game announced. Let’s use our brains.

Myself and 4 other UB fans will be going

That poll is literally worthless lol. They don’t consider CUSA a mid major despite their last multi-bid year being 2012 when only 5 of their current teams were in the conference. Mid-major coaches are not spending their free time watching other mid-major games

https://www.prospectiveinsight.com/post/zaiden-cross In this interview he says he has an offer from Cincinnati and interest from Loyola Chicago

SFA wasn’t over the back at all in the half so this strategy is 100% effective

If Mballa crashes hard like he usually does and ends up with 3 fouls at the end of the half, people are saying Mballa made a dumb play and he never should have been in the game to begin with damned if you do, damned if you don’t on this board

We were #6 and they were #7 last year in OR%. We got punched in the mouth in the first half no doubt, but it’s not like SFA hitting the boards is a shocking development

I’d like to see a jumbo lineup with Hardnett/Fagan at the 3 in the second half. SFA can’t do anything outside the paint, clog it up and limit second chances and we can claw back

Lol we lose a rebound out of bounds as an SFA player is wrapped around Jeenathan’s left arm. Then on the inbounds #22 on SFA sets a screen moving his feet like an OT on a stretch play and there’s no fouls on either just some dog shit refereeing

We’re playing like shit but SFA got called for 27 fouls last game. Somehow we’ve been called for double the fouls when they’re initiating almost all contact

Barttorvik's site is now updated and displaying Wins Above Bubble, which I think is a good measure of how the team performs this year as hitting our ceiling would be a bubble caliber team imo. So far we're 50th in the country with 0.3 WAB, Bonaventure is 2nd in the country with 1.4 WAB. https://barttorvik.com/trank.php?sort=34&begin=20211101&end=20220501&conlimit=All&year=2022&top=0&hteam=&quad=5&rpi=# Beating SFA and Saint Louis on neutral floors this week would add an additional 0.54 WAB which would put us in the current Top 20 WAB definition for those not familiar: Wins Above Bubble (WAB): The difference in the number of wins a team has compared to the expected number of wins an average "bubble" team would earn against a given teams' schedule.