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[QUOTE="ToolzieFan, post: 3037119, member: 7018"]
I was also looking up some of Calhoun's team's defensive numbers today, and they are staggering. KenPom only goes back to 2001 (my freshman year!), and that was a down year for UConn, so let's look at 2002-2012. UConn led the nation in block % five times, was in the top six 10 times. We fell all the way to 19th in 2011, but that season worked out okay. We were in the top six in 2-pt FG% allowed 10 times, slipping to 14th in 2010. The team was in the top eight in effective FG% every year from 2002-2009, and we never were worse than 19th in that span. We were generally solid defending the 3, but that varied from year-to-year. Our interior defense was truly outstanding under Calhoun.

The other things that really jumped out was our offensive rebounding percentage. From 2001-2012, we never fell below 23rd in the country in OR%, and we were in the top seven a total of eight times. It's amazing that despite watching over 90% of those games (including being at nearly every home game from 2001-2004), I never realized we were THAT dominant on the offensive glass.
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