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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1610591, member: 581"]
Not sure why this is a great point that people keep making.  They played cupcakes every game previous to this except Purdue.

Against, Purdue:

They scored 59 points (72 versus us).  They shot better from 2 against us, from 3, had more rebounds, more assists, and less turnovers.

I'm not taking either side on the debate, but people throwing out this stat are somewhat dishonest.  Of course their numbers are going to go down against us, we're not Central Arkansas.  And that's who most of their games have been against (those type teams).

The zone is fine in this portion of our schedule, better teams get slowed down, m2m isn't going to be as effective because they have better ballhandlers, etc...so, if we're looking to slow down a game, and keep it close, this is the way.  Just not sure keeping it close and allowing teams that can't handle ball pressure to keep it close is a great strategy 100% of the time.

We pretty much just hand games over to St. Johns and Wisconsin when we sit back like we do.  Maybe we win, but we ensure a dogfight against teams we should be able to beat on talent alone because we are happy to let them dictate the game to us.
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