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[QUOTE="mike32768, post: 184060, member: 1927"]
I watched Gottlieb and replayed it several times and I could not unravel what he said (closed captions were no better LOL).  I do believe he was trying to make the case that the Orange were in next-to-last place in some rebounding stat.
 
Now, I could not agree more that the Orange need to clean up their act WRT rebounds, especially looking at the last few close games, but for them to be in last (or almost last) place in any of the rebounding categories...I shook my head.
 
So I went to the ESPN site and looked up teams stats and the Cuse are NOT doing as poorly as some (Gottlieb included) are suggesting. Poorly, perhaps, but not near the cellar.  I included a few other teams for comparison.
 
[CODE]Team      OffRPG       DefRPG       RPG
Cuse      13.2(44th)   22.6(231st)  35.8(112th)
UK        12.8(60th)   27.0(10th)   39.8(14th)
Duke      11.5(151st)  24.4(100th)  35.9(107th)
Ohio      11.7(135th)  25.1(63rd)   36.8(14th)
NC        16.0(3rd)    30.0(1st)    46.1(1st)[/CODE]
 
Looking at that, it seems the Cuse needs to tighten up defense for sure, but they aren't near last place!  The offensive rebounding is actually not too shabby.
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