I don’t want to kill the mood of a primarily positive thread but looking at the box score, we allowed offensive rebounds on half of their misses. That’s really terrible. I couldn’t get the game down here, were there a lot of crazy bounces off missed 3’s? Did we get outworked?
Just digging into the Play-by-Play a bit on this:
UConn had 6 blocks. 2 in the first half, 4 in the second half. The two in the first half ended as defensive rebounds, the 4 in the second half ended as offensive rebounds. Two of those four were attributed to team offensive rebounds, so I assume they were blocked out of bounds by UConn. Drexel converted those 4 ORs in the second half into 4 points.
Drexel was 3/16 on 3PTA`s, or 13 available rebounds here. They got ORs on 5 of those attempts for 2 points. Two of those were attributed to team offensive rebounds.
Drexel was 12/18 on FTs with 5 being rebounds and 1 being the first of two. UConn got all five DRs.
Drexel was 22/43 on 2PTA`s including 6 being blocked, so excluding blocked shots, they were 22/37. Or 15 available rebounds. They rebounded 8 of those attempts for 11 points.
So overall they got 17 ORs for 17 points. UConn only did well on rebounding FTs and defending after Drexel got the OR.
Drexel got 8 1st half ORs and 9 second half ORs. 3 of the second half ORs were in the final 10 minutes when the game was about 30 points.
UConn only had 24 missed FGAs and 2 reboundable FTAs, 8 ORs isn`t horrible.
They had one block and got the DR.
UConn was 10/17 from 3 and got 2 ORs for 4 points.
UConn was 15/21 on FTAs with 2 being rebounds (DRs for Drexel) and 4 being the first of two.
UConn was 26/43 on 2PTA`s including 1 blocked. So excluding the block UConn was 26/42. Or 16 available rebounds. UConn got 6 ORs on twos for 14 points. UConn actually converted on every OR this game for 18 points on 8 ORs (2 three pointers, 4 free throws and 4 two pointers).
Overall, I would say their missing threes for longer rebounds combined with UConn going for blocks did contribute a decent amount to their ORs.