Efficiency Margins

[Knicks411]

http://www.basketballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=811

Man, I know it's early, and we haven't played a ridiculously challenging BE schedule yet, but we're killing the rest of the league. We're +.13 ahead of second place, Seton Hall, who is in second, is .10 ahead of 10th place!

 

[IthacaMatt]

Lots of good info in there. We lead the Big East in efficiency on both sides of the ball. UConn not playing very good defense so far.

Looking at the Big 10 stats that appear lower in that article, it would seem that Indiana should be ready to start on a losing streak. Michigan State is probably the most underrated team in the country right now.

 

[jordoo]

Wow that is pretty telling. I feel like we can still get better defensively and offensively. Great to see us up by such a wide margin and to know that the closest team to us (Hall) had all sorts of issues against us. The bad news for the BE is that we are so deep that I doubt we wear down over the corse of the season like some teams will and a majority of our guys are young college players that are sill improving. Something that is commonly lost about is and our death is that of our 10 guys in our rotation 6 are fresh/soph.

 

[Garbs]

Lots of good info in there. We lead the Big East in efficiency on both sides of the ball. UConn not playing very good defense so far.

Looking at the Big 10 stats that appear lower in that article, it would seem that Indiana should be ready to start on a losing streak. Michigan State is probably the most underrated team in the country right now.

I think they are right about where they should be

 

[Knicks411]

Btw, to tie this back into the other thread, is it possible Michigan State is a little underrated because of the schedule? They started with 2 really tough games, dropped them, and people kind of forgot about them for a while, ("they have 2 losses already, how good can they be?") but now they might be the best team in their conference.

 

[General20]

I think they are right about where they should be

I think they are close to the most overrated team in the country right now.