I get killed at relying too much on stats…but often times it really helps me understand things.
I thought individually we were atrocious defensively and got bailed out a lot with Lehigh not finishing and having trouble with our length.
However, my trusty box score said there were 81 possessions so 70/81 isn’t horrible. When adjusted for the opponent the result can be better.
offensively we need better than 73/81.
the biggest nugget from the box score squelching the concept we got beat in the boards. Despite Lehigh having more rebounds we OREB 26% of our misses and they OREB 16.7% of theirs.
when you miss 15 more shots than your opponent they will almost always have more rebounds than you.