ATHLETIC Article of tiers

[mu_eyeballs]

Stat heads will have to fill me in, but putting us in tier 3 because of our rebounding and team size seems a little nit picky.  I feel our rebounding has improved over the win streak and our ability to turn teams over allows us to make up and even the possessions out over the course of a game.

https://theathletic.com/5275725/2024/02/15/college-basketball-power-rankings-uconn-and-purdue-lead-our-tiers-of-contenders?source=user-shared-article

[tower912]

Meh.   Rebounding is a recurring theme.   MU is not a big team.   They have to find something and those criticisms are fair.

[mu_eyeballs]

But Kansas has 3.5 players 🤣

[milwaukee ex-pat]

Article doesn't consider BG one of our top 7 players. That's a bad scout imo.  He is emerging and with him and Oso on court together I think we erase that weakness by the BET.  I thought our primary weakness last year which would trip us up in NCAA tournament was we lacked some beef and could be outmuscled - too much of a finesse team to win 6 straight.  Maybe not any more..

[wisblue]

Seems like a fair analysis to me.

The NCAA tournament can be all about matchups and there are teams that can cause MU matchup problems with their size, especially if Oso gets in foul trouble.

UConn will be a good test of how MU can do against a team with long athletic players and a big rim protector.

The St.John's game showed how lack of rebounding can be a problem for MU.

[El Guerrero 2]

I can't take seriously any analysis that doesn't count Ben in our top 7. All they had to do was look at minutes played?

[Vander Blue Man Group]

The guy who wrote it is getting hammered in the comments because it's pretty clear he hasn't actually watched Marquette in the past month or two.

Marquette belongs in tier 2 and you can make a pretty strong argument Kansas and UNC belong in tier 3.