Good to get the decisive win.
Winning the games we should…..so far, none of the hiccups of losing games we shouldn’t (N. Dakota St., LMU, Pepperdine last year) or missing opportunities for wins over Quad II and III type teams (ASU, Stanford, UAB last year)…we were just 9-7 in Quad II/III games last year.
JC and ’Kev’s above comments regarding FT and fouling concerns are legit. We need to improve both our FT attempts and FT% and cut back on the fouling. Stats to date illustrate this….our opponents are outscoring us by 6.5 pts/game from the FT line…..that’s not sustainable if the goal is a 25-ish win season. And from Torvik, we’re 332nd in opponent FT rate, a byproduct of fouling too much and on offense we’re 297th in FT rate and 315th in FT%.
Next up…..6-0 Saint Louis with big bodied Rob Avila and his unique skill set leading their squad in 3 ptrs. It’s still early so you have to take current rankings with a huge grain of salt, but as of today, SLU is our highest ranked non-con opponent on Torvik at 62nd, followed by ASU at 84th. Potential Acrisure 2nd game opponent Minnesota is 79th, Stanford is in the high 90’s. Related….as of now we have 0 projected Quad 1 games on our non-con schedule.