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Message: [QUOTE="McLovin, post: 3898158, member: 9450"] Thanks [USER=7275]@Storrs South[/USER] , appreciate the data. Fast break points probably isn't the best way to look at it. When you are playing a high powered offensive team, the point of the game when you can't match the offensive output is to limit their total possessions. Maryland's offensive efficiency ratio is 46th in the country. Here are our results & points allowed against other to 50 offenses. Wins: USC 58 points, Xavier 72 points, Seton Hall 58 points (62 points allowed avg. in wins vs top 50 offenses). Losses: Creighton 76 points, St Johns 74 points, Creighton 74 points, Seton Hall 80 points, Nova 68 points, Creighton 59 points (72 points allowed avg in losses vs top 50). We only average 72 points per game, across all games that include the cupcakes. We don't score enough against highly efficient offensive teams to wins in a shootout. We have won 3 games all year while giving up over 70 points - CCSU (we scored 102), Georgetown (we scored 98) and Xavier (we scored 80). Like I said, Maryland loves to shoot the 3. The faster the pace, the more 3s they get to take. The more 3s they make, the more points we need to score. Trying to beat a team while giving up over 70 points is not something we are equipped to do. FWIW in 2011 other teams only averaged 58 ppg against us and in 2014 it was 63 ppg in the NCAAs. Slow defensive slugfests is how we won our last 2 championships. It's the way our team is built this year too. I don't know why people think we need to rewrite the playbook and try to play uptempo and drop 100 on Maryland Saturday to win. Would love for us to drop 100, but if we do it's because we shoot 60% from the field, not because we got into a 100-96 shootout. [/QUOTE]

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