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Message: [QUOTE="nyclax, post: 4383990, member: 8261"] Faceoffs are important and the current situation is not ideal but faceoffs deficits can also be overcome with efficiency. Rutgers made the Final Four last year despite being weak on faceoffs because they were efficient on both ends of the field. The issue for the Orange is that the defense was atrocious last year and quite literally one of the least efficient in the country. That has to improve or faceoffs won't matter. Better efficiency beats out a possession advantage most of the time. Faceoffs given current personnel look like they will be a harder thing to improve than the defense with the addition of Mark, new SSDMs, freshmen, another year in the new system, etc. [/QUOTE]