#23 according to Ken Pom

[MarquetteDano]

The thing with our defense, though, is it has been great when it's needed to be. Second half at Nova was dominant. Locked down Wisky to allow the comeback, even if we ultimately lost. Against Purdue and Providence it was the offense down the stretch, not the defense, that cost us.

It hasn't been 40 minutes good, that's for sure, but it can lock down. If the staff can get consistent defensive efforts like we've seen in spurts, this is a team with third weekend upside.

I don't have Synergy or an equivalent tool at my disposal,  but my thought is, outside of our poor defensive rebounding,  our half court defense is decent enough.  I would like to see how poor we are at transition defense though.  No stats to back it up,  but it seems bad.  Maybe not as bad as our defensive rebounding,  but probably our 2nd worst part of our defense.

[tower912]

Transition defense was the big negative change during the February/March swoon last year.