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[QUOTE="FornerlyBIS, post: 238742, member: 2086"]
This is a pretty good discussion (I'm a badger fan and a devotee of shetownbucky's pre-game analyses that this was taken from).  Another regular poster on the badger sites (named "turomon") invented a stat called the "opportunity index".  The OI is simply offensive rebounding margin + turnover margin. The idea is that if you get more offensive rebounds, that's like having extra possessions, and fewer turnovers is like saving your possessions. So, if you have 2 more offensive rebounds and 3 fewer turnovers than your opponent, you were +5 for OI, meaning 5 more opportunities to score than your opponent.
 
So, the posters here are rightly hypothesizing that if they can't force turnovers, they could make up for that with better defensive rebounding.
 
Different teams use different tactics to succeed in OI -- Syr focuses on causing more turnovers.  Wisconsin focuses both on not turning it over and defensive rebounding. MSU focuses on offensive rebounding.
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