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Message: [QUOTE="UChusky916, post: 5187240, member: 1222"] Unlike others here, I'm not as optimistic and think the Johnnies are a bad match up for us. Yes, their offense is ugly, but they do thrive on 4 things that will cause problems for our team: -Drives/penetration -Rebounding -Drawing fouls -Their defense They showed last night they could get to the rim at-will against Marquette. That's been a big weakness for our team... stopping opponents drives. They shoot low %, but make up for it with rebounding to get more looks and easy buckets. Our rebounding, especially from bigs, has dropped off this year and been problematic at times. They draw fouls. We've been fouling a lot. Not a good recipe, but hopefully they don't shoot a good % from the line. Their defense is elite. Pitino loves pressing and we dont have a lot of size on the perimeter to deal with their pressure. They can switch and will disrupt our ball handling. Having Liam back helps, but Diarra isn't 100%. Our offense is elite when we can get into our sets, but I think they'll do a good job disrupting that and preventing us from getting into our action early. Should be a good match-up. [/QUOTE]