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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4449779, member: 175"] Both rebounding deficits were offset by significant advantages in turnover margin. Today we were +10 and Alabama we were +9. What‘s usually a better measure is what percentage of rebounds you get on each end. If those numbers are identical, but you force a lot more turnovers, you’ll likely end up with a rebounding deficit … since more of your possessions result in shots going up than your opponent’s. But we weren’t all that great on the defensive boards today. Only got 22 of 35 possible defensive rebounds (63 percent) - and you’d like to be 75 percent or better. We got 13 offensive rebounds ourselves (out of 39), but our defensive board work had room for improvement. The percentage number isn’t perfect either - since it can also be skewed by foul shots. The defensive team typically gets 70-75 percent of live ball rebounds but over 90 percent of missed foul shots (which is logical, since everyone starts in good box out position and there’s no mystery about what the foul shooter is going to do). So if a team misses the second of two foul shots a lot (or the front ends of one and ones), those are comparatively “easy” rebounds that can affect percentages a little. Today, OSU got four of those and we got one. [/QUOTE]