Wags wrote:
And the defense - wow, another Mihalich-coached team allowing in the 60s?! Years ago, we never thought we'd see this. But look at the points they've allowed in the past several games: 60, 63, 59, 73, 69, 61 (4-2 in that stretch, winning all four, three of them easily, when they allowed 59-63). Finally with one of Joe's teams. Good to see! The D has been as consistent as I've seen it this season under one of his teams since he's been here.
Allowing 63 or fewer is great. A point distribution of 20+15+10+8+7+5 from the bench = 65, and as today showed, our starters are capable of more than that. It's great to have five worthy of starting rather than one or two who start because nobody else is better. 2015-2016, 2018-2019, and this season had all five starters contribute. 2016-2017 (Ty Greer to JWF) and 2017-2018 (Wormley to Buie and Joel Angus III to Trueheart) had starters change during the season. Last season had a starter change from Trueheart to Coburn after 9 games, whereas all the players who gained or lost a starting spot in 2016-2017 or 2017-2018 had at least 13 starts. In 2014-2015 we had Green, Tanksley, and Bernardi start every game; Kone and Nichols start most games; and Gustys, Nesmith, Robinson, and Walker started 3 to 7. In the last 14 complete seasons, and hopefully this season, we only had 2 starters miss a lot of time due to injury. They were Angus III in 2017-2018 and Dwan McMillan in 2010-2011. I don't remember what happened to McMillan, but he started the first 11 games and didn't play the rest of the season. He was replaced in the starting lineup by Kelleher, who was suspended for the previous season and the first 8 games. Kelleher came off the bench in his first 3 games and started every game after McMillan stopped.
https://gohofstra.com/news/2020/2/1/men ... -mary.aspx is Hofstra's recap titled "MBB: Hofstra Sends Statement With Rout Of William & Mary." Buie got to 1,137 points and passed Mike Moore and Wandy Williams for 29th. Pemberton tied Apodaca for sixth with 190 threes. He's 2 behind Richardson and 11 behind Rivera. He will probably finish fourth because he's 66 behind Bernardi in third. Bernardi made 256, JWF is second with 277, and Agudio is first (and second in CAA history) with 357.
Buie led all scorers with 22. He shot 9-15 including threes 4-8, had a great ratio of 7 assists to 1 turnover and did not commit a foul. Surprisingly, he did not have any free throw attempts (which we shot 8/12 = .667) or steals. Coburn tied Knight for the second most points with 19. With 19 seconds left in the first half, he had 3. He shot 6-12 including threes 5-8, free throws 2-2, and had only 3 rebounds. Pemberton scored 16 by shooting 6-10 including threes 1-1 and free throws 3-3. He had our second most rebounds with 5. He had a bad ratio of 1 assist to 3 turnovers, but made up for it with 2 steals and 1 block. Kante had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. He shot field goals 6-6 including making a long two at the shot clock buzzer, but shot free throws 1-3.
He got up to 4 fouls late in the game, but wasn't in foul trouble shown by his 34 minutes. He had 1 block and no assists, turnovers, or steals. Ray scored 10 and didn't shoot well, but he had our second most assists with 4, and only 1 turnover. Our last field goal was a two by Burgess to give him 3 points, and it was our only field goal from the bench. Silverio didn't do anything positive. Schutte had no shots, 1 rebound, 1 foul, and 1 block. Trueheart did a lot in 4 minutes with 2 misses, 3 rebounds, 1 block, and 1 steal. Our bench played only 15 minutes.
Knight led W&M with 19. He shot field goals 8-14, free throws 3-3, and surprisingly did not attempt a three. He also prevented a three from counting as an attempt when he fouled Pemberton in the act of shooting a three. He had 16 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1 block, but had 4 fouls and 4 turnovers. Bryce Barnes was their other double-digit scorer with 11, and had the third most rebounds on either team with 6 while being 5'11''. He had only 1 assist after entering averaging 3.7. Miguel Ayesa scored 9 off the bench by shooting 3-5, with all of the attempts being threes. He has attempted 77 threes and 10 twos. His only other positive contribution was his third block in 22 games. W&M's second, third, and fourth leading scorers entering the game played poorly. Andy Van Vliet scored 9 and had 4 assists and 2 blocks; but shot 3-13 and amazingly had only 1 rebound, and W&M was down 26 by then! Thornton Scott led W&M with 5 assists, but scored 6 and shot 2-8. Luke Loewe shot 1-4, which isn't many attempts in 32 minutes, and scored 4. His other positive contributions were 3 rebounds and 1 steal. Their only bench player other than Ayesa to score was Quinn Blair, who scored 2 by shooting 1-4. Tyler Hamilton, Rainers Hermanovskis, Thatcher Stone, and Mekhel Harvey combined to by 20 minutes, with 2 rebounds and 1 steal as their only positive contributions. Hamilton shot 0-2, and the other three didn't shoot.
In the Game Score from Analytics from Home Stats and Visitor Stats from
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=282057 Buie led all players with 19.9 Knight was second at 17.9, but was their only player in double-digits. We had four players in double-digits with Coburn at 13.9, Kante at 12.9, and Pemberton at 12.5. The sum of the Game Scores is 69.5 for us and 39.8 for them.
We shot great at 32-59 (.542) including twos 21-36 (.583) and threes 11-23 (.478), and we shot better in the second half. W&M shot threes well at 8-21 (.381), and free throws 8-9 (.889), but shot twos 14-38 (.368), which is worse than they shot threes. We normally have a big advantage in points from free throws with points from field goals about even. Today we made the same amount of free throws with 3 more attempts, and had 23 more points from 59 field goal attempts each. W&M had more assists, 35 to 32, but we got closer after they had 8 more in the first half. Each team had 14 assists, so W&M had assists on a much higher percentage of their field goals. Second chance points were 11 each, which is great considering we had 6 offensive rebounds and they had 11. They had more bench points, 11 to 3, but we expect to have fewer bench points. They had 2 more points in the paint, 26 to 24. We had 7 turnovers that gave them 10 points, and they had 13 turnovers that gave us 13 points. If you add rebounds and opponents' turnovers, we had more, 45 to 42. We had a big advantage in fast break points, 11 to 3. We had 6 steals and 4 blocks, and they had 4 steals and 6 blocks. That means the teams switched bench points and points off turnovers, and switched steals and blocks.
We could have ended today in first, third, or fourth, but not second. We will end Thursday in second because W&M is at Charleston while we don't play. Who should we root for. On one hand, since we're better head-to-head against W&M, we should root for them. On the other hand, if Charleston beats W&M, we beat Northeastern on Saturday, and we beat Charleston on Thursday February 13 on CBS Sports Network, we will end that day in first. If W&M beats Charleston, we beat Northeastern on Saturday, and we beat Charleston on Thursday February 13, we would end the day in first if W&M lost at UNCW and/or hosting Drexel. UNCW is very bad, and Drexel is very bad away. Us, W&M, and Charleston are all at home the final week. Who should we root for in Towson at Delaware on Thursday on CBS Sports Network? Towson is 0.5 games ahead of Delaware and 1 game behind us. Since we won at Towson and lost hosting Delaware, I think we should root for Towson because of tiebreakers. If Charleston beats W&M, we beat Charleston, and we finish in a three-way tie for first, all three will be 2-2 head-to-head and it will be determined by record against the next team or tied teams. Towson has a win over W&M, and Delaware hasn't beaten W&M or Charleston, so if we beat Towson and Charleston and finish in a four-way tie for first, we would be 4-2 against the group, and nobody could be 5-1 against the group. If we beat Charleston and Towson and finish in a three-way tie for first with them, we will win the three-way head-to-head. If we beat Charleston and Towson and finish in a three-way tie with Towson and W&M, we will win the three-way head-to-head. If we beat Charleston and Towson and finish tied for first, and Towson is in the top four without being in tie that goes below fourth, it would be hard for us to not win the tiebreaker.