DEFENSE!

[BludOrange]

Held Sparty to 26% shooting, and 21% from 3.

People will want to talk about the rebound advantage and amount of offensive rebounds State had, but when you force a team to miss 49 shots, there is going to be a lot of opportunities to grab offensive boards. Our defense was superb and held them pretty much scoreless the last six minutes of the game, other than a couple of free throws in the final minute.

Hats off to those young men for playing hard and hustling the whole game on D. I'd take giving up 51 rebounds(29 offensive) every time, if it means a team only makes 16 buckets in the whole game and we win.

Last team in and after today, will be one of the final 16 still playing. LGO!

 

[Cowtown]

BOOYAH!

 

[NateW]

Those zone rotations are tighter than a frogs as$hole

 

[BludOrange]

Three of the supposedly better offensive teams in the country and these boys held them all to under 60. Yet people want to say some pack line D is the best D in the land. I say not.

 

[JoeySimz]

JB postgame: (people) want to call it a rock fight, how about calling it good defense.

Msu’s lowest shooting pct in tourney history

 

[BludOrange]

Pretty crazy that Bayer comes in the game and they only scored one basket after that. Kid hustled and got involved.

 

[DomeStranger]

JB postgame: (people) want to call it a rock fight, how about calling it good defense.

Msu’s lowest shooting pct in tourney history

They said it was their lowest shooting % in any game in the last 20 years.

 

[kuethstheman]

People will want to talk about the rebound advantage and amount of offensive rebounds State had, but when you force a team to miss 49 shots, there is going to be a lot of opportunities to grab offensive boards

Ummm

 

[moqui]

arizona state, 18th nationally in offensive efficiency: season low point total
tcu, 10th in offensive efficiency: season low point total
msu, 13 in offensive efficiency: season low point total

and all of those rankings were a notch or two higher until they ran into the iron curtain

su now up to 5th in defensive efficiency