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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4180186, member: 833"]
Good points.  Here are the stats I like to look at first: Depaul is 1-9 in conference and 10-10 overall.  Their two best wins of the season are over Louisville, where Freeman-Liberty was 2 for 15 and Jones won the game for the Blue Demons, and Seton Hall, where JFL got hurt early in the second half and barely played the rest of the game.  They lost a winnable game vs. Butler because JFL went on a hero ball, shooting spree, going 4 for 16 from the field (1 for 8 from 3).  Since JFL went out, Depaul has gone 0-4, but almost beat Xavier and UConn, two top 25 teams.  Depaul looks decent.

JFL is the prototypical bad team star, putting up big stats in games his team is certain to lose, or against weak non-conference opponents.  Depaul is not that bad a team anymore, and doesn't need him jacking a dozen contested shots a game.  Depaul has winnable home games against Georgetown, Butler and Creighton coming up in the next three weeks, so we will see how this team does.  They will beat Georgetown regardless, but if JFL returns and starts launching contested pullups, they will lose two winnable games to Butler and Creighton.
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