Crashing the "O" boards vs. Rodents

[MarquetteDano]

I was thinking about something reading Crean's comments that Wisconsin wants a low tempo game and Marquette wants a higher tempo game.

Given this, I think it would be wise to crash the offensive boards hard in this game.  First, Wisconsin has a lot of height so we will need bodies to offset that.  Second, Wisconsin, unless they have a tremendous numbers advantage, is not going to try to score in transition that much.  Thus, we may be able to get away with four players crashing the boards and not have to concern ourselves with transition as much.

Marquette is already quite good at offensive rebouding (see Pomeroy's tempo free stats on this) and not giving up too many transition points.  That is a fare combination for a team.  We should really try to take advantage of this in the game.

  - Dano'