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Experience edge - SU vs Louisville & Cinci

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Especially with Southerland out these past two games, I wanted to figure out just how big an advantage Louisville & Cinci had on Syracuse in terms of experienced players...so below is how many minutes & games played in college each player had coming into this season:

(Top 5 players for each team selected by highest avg mins played this season.)

Player - Total minutes played entering 2012 - Total games played entering 2012

Louisville:
Peyton Silva - 2,527 minutes played - 104 games played
Russ Smith - 933 minutes played - 56 games played
Gorgui Dieng - 1,763 minutes played - 69 games played
Chane Behanan - 1,039 minutes played - 40 games played
Luke Hancock - 945 minutes played - 33 games played*
(* Note: Luke Hancock transferred from George Mason, so his totals are from his time there.)

Total Louisville: 7,207 minutes played entering 2012 - 302 games played entering 2012


Cincinnati:
Cashmere Wright - 2,673 minutes played - 106 games played
Sean Kilpatrick - 1,997 minutes played - 72 games played
JaQuon Parker - 1,336 minutes played - 79 games played
Titus Rubles - 0 minutes played - 0 games played
Justin Jackson - 1,232 minutes played - 72 games played

Total Cincinnati: 7,238 minutes played entering 2012 - 329 games played entering 2012


Syracuse:
Brandon Triche - 2,590 minutes played - 107 games played
Michael Carter-Williams - 269 minutes played - 26 games played
CJ Fair - 1,573 minutes played - 69 games played
Rakeem Christmas - 425 minutes played - 37 games played
DaJuan Coleman - 0 minutes played - 0 games played

Total Syracuse: 4,857 minutes played entering 2012 - 239 games played entering 2012


That is quite the edge in experience that both Louisville & Cincinnati had over our team coming into this season. We should be very proud of our team for pulling out these wins, considering just how young & inexperienced a team we have (especially without Southerland).

And to think that our guys should only be better off for it (having now experienced these games & overcome the adversity to get the wins) is scary to think about for the rest of college basketball.
 
I think we forget how inexperienced we are at key positions like pg. We have enough though with branbon and cj.
 
Eh, considering our only NCAA championship came from a team that started 3 freshmen and 2 sophomores... experience is overrated.
 

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