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[QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4887306, member: 175"]
You’re right, but the things the algorithms don’t tell you is Clingan was out for 3 of those (well 2 1/2, he missed basically the whole second half vs. Hall). And Karaban was injured vs. Providence (he wasn’t 100 percent vs. Butler either, but if you play, you play - not being 100 percent shouldn't be an important part of the calculus). Navigating those games should be considered a strength by a human analyzing them (other than we should have done better against Hall - but losing a guy in the second half makes it a little tougher - you can’t gameplan or make halftime adjustments).

This is by no means a novel thought - but margins sometimes need context. You can win by 5 by being in a dogfight and hitting a tiebreaking 3 with 5 seconds left, then two foul shots. Or the other team can cut it from 12 to 5 in the last minute just to pretty up the corpse a little. We beat Georgia Tech by 9 in the 2004 finals because they bombed 5 threes in a row in the final two minutes after we punked them all night.
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