Dartmouth: Bad At Basketball
Dean Oliver was, I believe, the first to posit that there are “four factors” to offensive or defensive success: shooting, turnovers, rebounding, and free throws. Dartmouth is poor in each of those areas whether they or their opponents (@UMass, @GW, Colgate, Siena, @Hartford–all losses) have the ball.
Dartmouth shoots under 42% from the field and they allow their opponents to shoot over 57%.
They turn the ball over on 23.6% of their possessions and they force turnovers on just 20.2% of their opponents possessions. That’s actually not terrible but my larger point here is that the best you can say about Dartmouth’s basketball team is that there’s an area in which they are not terrible, merely below average.
They get just 29% of possible offensive rebounds and 65 % of possible defensive rebounds.
The Big Green can shoot free throws–they’ve made 73% of their attempts–but they rarely get the chance. They make one free throw for every 7.4 field goals they attempt. Their opponents shoot one free throw for every 3.3 field goals they attempt.
Kansas is going to win this game going away whether they play or they play poorly, whether they play with passion or just go through the motions. Dartmouth’s bad and they’re decimated by injuries. More than half their roster has missed at least one game so far. I think the most we’ll learn tonight is how many shots Jeremy Case can get up in garbage time.
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November 28th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
I sure hope you have not angered the gods of irony
November 28th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
This game will be brutal. And I mean really brutal. We’re favored by 37.5 and I might lay some money on our covering.
Dartmouth has the pathetic stats that they’ve had playing teams that are really bad.
Can KU shoot 70% tonight? Can we score 120?
I’ll go out on a limb and predict:
KU 90
Dartmouth 37
I think it will be that bad. Maybe I’m wrong, but KU is going to come out and play motivated basketball. They’ve been dogged by criticism that they play down to their opponents, and my sense is that they’ll come and stomp on Dartmouth just to show that they’re still up for games and to try to create good habits.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Good call on the score, Jeremy
November 29th, 2006 at 10:55 am
My trackbacks are not working.
http://geekswithblogs.net/thibbard/archive/2006/11/29/KUCrushesDartmouth.aspx
November 29th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
nice job on the score