[Cracked Sidewalks] Warriors invade Queens

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Warriors invade Queens

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair)

Marquette takes on the St. John's Red Storm tonight in Queens....tipoff is 6:30pm Marquette Standard Time.  A few media links for tonight's game:

• The NY Daily News looks at star-crossed St. John's senior Anthony Mason, Jr. heading into Senior Night.
• The Quad over at the New York Times offers a series of previews on college hoops action tonight -- and smartly call out Jimmy Butler's year-to-year improvement.  Jimmy Butler, your 2010 BIG EAST Most Improved Player.
• Here's the official MU preview including game notes.
• Johnny Jungle looks at the Surging Storm but predicts a 67-61 MU victory.
• Rosiak blogs about the game and takes up the topic of Bigs with Buzz.
• Rosiak stays on that topic in his print preview pointing out that "MU ranks 15th of 16 teams in the Big East in rebounding margin, being out-boarded by an average of 4.0 per outing."  Of course, despite those predictable rebounding issues MU leads the Big East in scoring defense. An odd mix, to be sure.
• By the way, Lazar Hayward leads the Big East in steals.  Yes, MU's power forward leads the league in steals.
• One more stat of note ... Maurice Acker leads the Big East in assist/turnover ratio with an eye-popping 5.1/1.  The next closest is Jordan Theodore at 2.6/1.  Incredible.
• Oh, and the moderators at MUScoop have plenty riding on tonight's outcome.
  

http://www.youtube.com/v/wvgsopBHBkM&hl=en_US&fs=1&

........and since MU is heading to Queens here's a classic

http://www.youtube.com/v/nHRERLEM2eE&hl=en_US&fs=1&

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2010/02/warriors-invade-queens.html

[StillWarriors]

5.1/1 TO ratio is unreal for anyone....truly amazing for someone who's not a BE caliber player to have numbers like that.

[NYWarrior]

5.1/1 TO ratio is unreal for anyone....truly amazing for someone who's not a BE caliber player to have numbers like that.

tell me about it

[StillWarriors]

Nicely played-kudos

[NYWarrior]

FWIW, I just verified with MU that Mo Acker leads the nation in A/TO ratio in conference games, 5.1 / 1

Mo Acker, the nation's best.  That's insane.  Bravo.  In the BE, he nearly doubles up the guy in 2nd place (Theodore, 2.6)

[mu-rara]

I always liked the idea of Mo playing solid senior backup to Junior, but this is crazy....

[NYWarrior]

I always liked the idea of Mo playing solid senior backup to Junior, but this is crazy....

Mo also leads the Big East in 3 point FG% in conference games--better than 52%.  WTF

[dsfire]

FWIW, I just verified with MU that Mo Acker leads the nation in A/TO ratio in conference games, 5.1 / 1

Mo Acker, the nation's best.  That's insane.  Bravo.  In the BE, he nearly doubles up the guy in 2nd place (Theodore, 2.6)

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1).  Cubes also makes the top 25.

[NYWarrior]

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1).  Cubes also makes the top 25.

nice find..... will have to check my facts again!

[Thomas' Danish Delight]

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1).  Cubes also makes the top 25.

Word, awesome find indeed!

http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/marquette

The Butler sure knows how to get to the charity stripe.

[NYWarrior]

Stats Inc has different #s....waiting on that

[Badgerhater]

Great link the BE stats.

Another great stat.  MU is third in BE attendance..behind L'ville where hoops is a religion and Syracuse with their 30K dome and nothing else to do for miles around.

[muballer10]

If my memory serves me right, during the time of the Cousy award every pro-DJ poster on here would cite his Assist/TO ratio as to why he was deserving, because he was a "true point guard" (aka couldnt shoot) and that was a "true point guard stat."

Acker has done a great job, and is highly over-looked. Lets hope he keeps up the good work.

[tower912]

Acker has exceeded expectations and we would be lost without him.   But his shooting is in the crapper the last few games.   

[Daniel]

Acker has exceeded expectations and we would be lost without him.   But his shooting is in the crapper the last few games.   

Yep - his shooting has been off, so, in statistics we have regression to the mean - so he will shoot well tonight!

[Golden Shaka]

Anyone know if the game is going to be on in Chicago?  I have comcast and have caught a few on some random channel in the 200's?  Thanks