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[QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4494089, member: 4173"]
So, the team’s defense has not been good lately??? Let’s see . . .

They just held Creighton to 16 points below their average by shutting down their perimeter game (12% on 3’s) and getting them to shoot 40% on 2’s when they normally hit 54% on 2’s.

Defense wasn’t the main problem against Providence either. They’re a high scoring team that normally goes for 80 ppg but only got 73 against us on 36% shooting. The problem against Providence was that we couldn’t get our offense going - especially from 3 (22%). We were held to 19 points below our season scoring average and shot only 36%.

You can make a legitimate case that our defense failed us against Xavier. But let’s be clear about something. Xavier is the 3rd best shooting team in the country and they were playing at home. Their 83 points and 53% shooting are an average game for them. It’s not like we got torched by Xavier.

We won every game before Xavier, so the defense was good enough. Even conceding that the D wasn’t good enough against Xavier, that’s one game. On the road. And one game is not a trend.
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