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Message: [QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2973024, member: 6520"] This year's defense was definitely worse than last year's, all of the statistics definitively say that. But don't fall into the trap of thinking that any given team's defensive performance is either good or bad based on the total number of points allowed in a game. When we beat Duke by the score of 95-91 on January 14th, that was a 91 possession game. So we allowed only 1.0 points-per-possession (PPP). On Feb 23rd at the Dome, we lost 75-65 in a 66 possession game. We allowed fewer total points, but a higher PPP of 1.14 for that game. And then finally, on March 14th in the ACC Tourney we allowed Duke to score 84 points in a 71 possession game, for a defensive PPP of 1.18. The 95-91 game was probably our best defensive performance of the 3 games against Duke this year. [/QUOTE]