Shocking stats from the win against X

[Goose]

This win might end up being like a good loss late in the season. I think this gives them the confidence to step things up. Time to win March!!

[PGsHeroes32]

Tonight also guaranteed that we will not be swept by a BE team this year.

[MU82]

When Kam was like 0-for-6, I said: "We need Kam to step it up. We can't survive a 2-for-15 game from him."

He finished 2-for-14 ... so no wonder we survived!

Crazy game. I was in a text thread with some MU buddies all night and they are the Muggsy kind (in a good way) who get all frustrated and nervous about every single thing. With about 2 minutes left, one of them says: "Why does Shaka love Prosper so much?" And then when Prosper got the tip, he said, only, "Oh, that's why. I love him now, too!"

[warriorchick]

Tonight also guaranteed that we will not be swept by a BE team this year.

Actually, this is first season since we joined the Big East that we have beaten every team in the conference at least once.

[Mutaman]

And that's a couple of times Oso has been clutch from the FT line at the end of a game.

Like Giannis last night.

[Newsdreams]

Xavier shot 70% from the field in the second half.  Yet we still found a way to win.  Amazing.

Basically won everything else that is important, that is why

[MuggsyB]

We had 15 offensive rebounds to Xaiver's 4

We win on a night where Kam and OMax score 12 points on 4 of 21 shooting.

We win on a night we go 5 of 22 from 3 point line.


Oso, the 50% FT shooter calmly sinks 2 FTs under 15 seconds left down 1.

Elon, good teams find ways to win on off nights.  This was a gutsy performance and a critical victory when things looked quite dicey. 

[Elonsmusk]

Elon, good teams find ways to win on off nights.  This was a gutsy performance and a critical victory when things looked quite dicey.

I agree with your analysis Muggsy.  Huge win for the team/program.

[MuggsyB]

I agree with your analysis Muggsy.  Huge win for the team/program.

Mitchell really stepped up tonight.  Granted,  Boum burned him a bunch of times, but his scoring kept us in the gane in the 1st half and he had at least 5 critical hustle plays on the glass and defensively.  What pleased me most is he played with no hesitation.  I felt overall we were really tight tonight and and never really had our flow.   

[MuggsyB]

I don't know if it's been discussed or not in the threads but the stat that jumps out at me, in light of our offensive woes, is we had 7 turnovers tonight. 

[PGsHeroes32]

I don't know if it's been discussed or not in the threads but the stat that jumps out at me, in light of our offensive woes, is we had 7 turnovers tonight.

We had 4 in the first like 8ish minutes too

[MuggsyB]

We had 4 in the first like 8ish minutes too

I mean that's incredible if you think about the pace of the game and how seemingly out of sync we were with a lot of overdribbling.

[Jay Bee]

17.9% eFG% differential (adv X) and we won. It's shocking. (And X had a better FT%, lol)

Obviously I understand why we won, but trying to wrap my mind around how unique it is for a -17.9% eFG% team to win is. Someone want to look it up?

Q is: how many times in the past 5 season has this occurred?

[Uncle Rico]

17.9% eFG% differential (adv X) and we won. It's shocking. (And X had a better FT%, lol)

Obviously I understand why we won, but trying to wrap my mind around how unique it is for a -17.9% eFG% team to win is. Someone want to look it up?

Q is: how many times in the past 5 season has this occurred?

It can't be more than a handful of games

[The Lens]

This win might end up being like a good loss late in the season. I think this gives them the confidence to step things up. Time to win March!!

And I think we all knew we could win like this.  I never worried about our defensive metrics bc it always seemed like this team had some dog in them.  Tough shooting night?  Character revealed.  We can win a lot of ways. 

[JakeBarnes]

And I think we all knew we could win like this.  I never worried about our defensive metrics bc it always seemed like this team had some dog in them.  Tough shooting night?  Character revealed.  We can win a lot of ways.

The defensive metrics definitely don't line up with how I think this team is playing on defense. Definitely agree that a gritty win wasn't a shock. Definitely a huge boost for the team though to see that they can still win even when it felt like every bounce wasn't going their way. Pure heart with the win last night.

[Goose]

The Lens

I said in another post that I believe defense and grit will be the trademark of this program in the future.

[Jay Bee]

It can't be more than a handful of games

Yes; Can't imagine it being a double-digit number of games. But I don't know the answer

[jesmu84]

17.9% eFG% differential (adv X) and we won. It's shocking. (And X had a better FT%, lol)

Obviously I understand why we won, but trying to wrap my mind around how unique it is for a -17.9% eFG% team to win is. Someone want to look it up?

Q is: how many times in the past 5 season has this occurred?

Before last night, teams that posted an eFG% under 42% while allowing opponents to put up an eFG% of 57%+ were 0-120 in Big East games since 2008.

Make that 1-121.

https://painttouches.com/2023/02/16/notes-on-a-season-defining-win-over-xavier-marquette/