Hoosiers Thunder Like Bison, Beat Them

Tom Crean keeps talking about wanting to push the pace and play up-tempo (an idea that John Gasaway thinks will be nothing but good for the typically ploddingly-paced Big 10), and the Hoosiers did just that against Howard (HD Box), to the tune of 74 possessions. It remains to be seen if the Hoosiers are able to push the pace the rest of the year, as last year’s team managed  86 possessions in their opening game win over Northwestern St.

Everyone’s talking about how the freshmen on this squad hit the ground running, and they definitely did, but there aren’t many other options, really. Those freshmen are 6 of the 16 players on the roster. So it’s no surprise that the young ‘uns are contributing.

There are a couple of things that stood out to me from the game, though:

• It wasn’t just that he hit all but his last shot, but I loved Derek Elston’s game. He seemed to want to hustle for  boards and take what came to him. Plus, for a big man, he’s quick and has a nice stroke.
• The Hoosiers seem to have real trouble guarding the interior. Both early against Howard and in the exhibition games, it felt like when the opponents got the ball inside, they either got an easy shot (which they often missed in the exhibitions) or went to the line. The 2-1-2 and 2-3 zones seemed to help clog up the lane against Howard, but it bears watching this season. Those zones also helped encourage the cold-shooting Bison to hoist 22 of their 53 field goal attempts from beyond the arc, of which they hit only four (“a number so small you can spell it” as Gasaway might say). I did think that a lot of those 3’s were open. So a team with shooters would obviously fare better. However, saying that it will be tough to defend a team that can score in the paint and shoot the 3 is about as revelatory as telling you that there’s a different strain of the flu out and about this year, so we’ll not belabor that point.
• Christian Watford grabbed 9 of the 22 shots that the Bison missed while he was on the floor. That’s a pretty sick 41% of all the possible defensive rebounds available to him. If that’s in any way an indicator that he has some defensive rebounding prowess, he could form a potent combination with the offensive rebounding skills of frontcourt mate Tom Pritchard.
• At first blush, Jordan Hulls didn’t seem to do much on offense. And the numbers bear that out (see efficiency numbers below), but he sure didn’t do much to hurt the team. He only took 2 shots – and hit one of them – but he still found away to collect 5 assists without turning the ball over. According to the efficiency numbers, that comes out to a tidy 178 ORating while using a miniscule 10% of the possessions while he was on the floor. Good stuff. His usage will probably increase and his rating will drop, but there’s some room for both of those to happen.

Here are the efficiency calculations for the Hoosiers (sorted by minutes played):

Indiana                 ScPoss  Poss    PtsProd FlrPct  ORat    Usage
Rivers, Jeremiah        3.80    11.66   8.61    0.33    73.79   25.35   
Watford, Christian      5.84    9.12    13.64   0.64    149.54  19.41   
Creek, Maurice          6.74    10.20   15.76   0.66    154.51  22.17   
Jones III, Verdell      3.84    9.99    9.31    0.38    93.23   23.23   
Pritchard, Tom          4.98    5.62    10.85   0.89    192.88  15.20   
Hulls, Jordan           2.19    2.84    5.06    0.77    178.46  9.45    
Elston, Derek           2.67    3.31    6.60    0.81    199.43  14.39   
Dumes, Devan            2.89    8.12    7.15    0.36    88.07   33.85   
Capobianco, Bobby       0.29    3.58    0.69    0.08    19.23   23.83   
Roth, Matt              0.60    1.60    1.31    0.38    81.37   11.46   
Muniru, Bawa            0.58    1.53    1.26    0.38    82.03   15.31   
Moore, Daniel           0.00    1.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    10.00   
Finkelmeier, Brett      0.30    0.30    0.64    1.00    211.40  7.57    
Jobe, Tijan             0.00    0.00    0.00    NaN     NaN     0.00    
Barnett, Kory           0.00    0.00    0.00    NaN     NaN     0.00    
Gambles, Steven         0.00    1.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    33.33   

So Maurice Creek was the only high usage player (more than 20%) who was particularly efficient. I suspect we’ll see better numbers out of Rivers, Jones, and Dumes, and worse out of the other guys, but I like the roles of the team so far.

All in all, it was a good start. I’m thrilled to have hoops to watch and think about, and I’m even more glad to see the Hoosiers with more than 7 guys to contribute.

Howard vs. Indiana HD Box 11-13-09

Howard vs Indiana
11/13/09 8:06pm at Assembly Hall (Bloomington, Ind.)

Howard                  Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
White, Curtis          31:02  -13  10/48  1- 1  2- 6  2- 2  7/41  1/11  1/59  1/57  1/37  0/32  1/23   1 1.26
Phillips, Mike         28:27  -28   8/41  2- 5  0- 0  4- 6  5/35  1/10  0/54  3/50  0/40  4/27  5/21   1 1.02
Riley, Kyle            25:38  -30   8/31  2- 3  1- 7  1- 3 10/33  1/ 8  2/48  3/50  0/34  1/25  1/22   5 0.70
Thompson, Calvin       24:00  -14  13/40  5- 8  0- 1  3- 4  9/32  2/ 9  0/45  3/45  0/34  0/20  2/19   3 1.19
Walker, Adam           22:19  + 1   7/41  2- 4  0- 0  3- 4  4/33  0/10  0/40  0/42  0/22  2/26  3/14   2 1.19
Kirkpatrick, Paul      21:02  -23   4/23  1- 3  0- 0  2- 5  3/23  0/ 7  0/36  5/37  0/28  3/18  4/17   1 0.74
Johnson, Tyreak        12:52  -17   2/14  0- 1  0- 2  2- 4  3/14  0/ 3  0/23  4/22  0/16  0/14  0/ 9   1 0.41
Collins, Dadrian        9:33  - 2   0/13  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/10  1/ 4  0/13  0/15  0/ 9  0/ 8  0/ 7   1 0.00
Mukole, Kandi           8:09  + 4   1/15  0- 2  0- 1  1- 2  3/15  1/ 6  1/16  0/17  0/ 6  2/ 9  0/ 8   1 0.25
Dickerson, Anton        6:20  + 2   5/15  1- 3  1- 2  0- 0  5/11  0/ 2  0/13  0/11  0/ 8  0/ 8  0/ 3   0 1.00
Lawrence, Gary          5:52  + 2   2/11  1- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/10  0/ 3  1/10  0/10  0/ 5  1/ 7  1/ 5   0 1.00
Braimbridge, Yannick    4:39  + 3   0/ 8  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 8  1/ 3  1/ 8  0/ 9  0/ 1  0/ 6  0/ 2   0 0.00
TOTALS                 40:00          60 15-31  4-22 18-30    53  8/19  6/74 19/74  1/48 14/40 20/30  16 0.89
                                          .484  .182  .600        .421  .081  .257  .021  .350  .667    

Indiana                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Rivers, Jeremiah       25:33  +18   6/54  2- 8  0- 0  2- 2  8/40  4/20  1/47  4/46  1/17  0/19  4/20   2 0.67
Watford, Christian     24:41  +27  14/60  3- 5  1- 1  5- 5  6/44  1/20  1/47  2/47  1/14  2/21  9/22   3 1.67
Creek, Maurice         23:27  +26  17/60  5- 8  2- 4  1- 2 12/43  2/18  1/43  0/46  1/18  2/19  1/23   2 1.31
Jones III, Verdell     22:12  +17   9/50  3- 9  1- 3  0- 0 12/40  2/17  1/42  1/43  1/17  0/19  1/26   1 0.75
Pritchard, Tom         20:23  +27  10/56  5- 6  0- 0  0- 0  6/37  2/18  0/38  0/37  1/16  4/14  1/17   2 1.67
Hulls, Jordan          16:44  + 7   2/33  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/25  5/12  0/29  0/30  0/12  0/13  2/19   1 1.00
Dumes, Devan           13:28  + 5   7/27  2- 2  1- 3  0- 2  5/20  3/ 8  2/23  3/24  0/ 9  0/10  1/ 8   1 1.18
Elston, Derek          13:05  + 1  14/23  4- 5  2- 2  0- 0  7/18  0/ 4  1/22  0/23  0/13  1/ 8  2/14   2 2.00
Capobianco, Bobby       7:20  + 2   0/11  0- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/12  1/ 5  0/15  2/15  0/ 4  0/ 8  0/ 9   3 0.00
Roth, Matt              7:14  + 9   2/16  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/11  0/ 6  0/15  1/14  0/ 3  0/ 4  1/ 8   1 2.00
Muniru, Bawa            6:32  - 5   2/ 4  1- 1  0- 0  0- 2  1/ 5  0/ 1  0/11  0/10  1/10  0/ 4  1/12   1 1.03
Moore, Daniel           6:00    0   0/ 9  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/12  1/10  0/ 8  0/ 3  1/ 7   2   --
Jobe, Tijan             5:41  - 1   0/12  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 8  0/ 4  0/ 8  0/10  0/ 1  0/ 4  0/ 2   1   --
Finkelmeier, Brett      3:07  - 8   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 5  0/ 4  0/ 5  1/ 2  1/ 5   0   --
Barnett, Kory           2:12  - 5   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 4  0/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 4   0   --
Gambles, Steven         2:12  - 5   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 4  1/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 4   0   --
TOTALS                 40:00          83 27-48  7-14  8-13    62 20/34  7/74 15/74  6/31 10/30 26/40  22 1.22
                                          .563  .500  .615        .588  .095  .203  .194  .333  .650    

Efficiency: Howard 0.811, Indiana 1.122
eFG%: Howard 39.6, Indiana 60.5
Substitutions: Howard 45, Indiana 50

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Howard 1-1, Indiana 4-4
Layups/Tips: Howard 8-14, Indiana 18-27
Jumpers: Howard 6-16, Indiana 5-17

The HD Box Score is something created by Ken Pomeroy, which I've tried to duplicate for my own purposes. kenpom explains the data here. The only thing different here is the Points Per Weighted Shot (PPWS) column, which John Gasaway (the erstwhile Big Ten Wonk) told me about here.

1st Half Only 
Howard                  Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Riley, Kyle            17:59  -19   5/21  2- 3  0- 4  1- 2  7/26  1/ 6  0/34  1/35  0/23  1/19  1/17   1 0.63
Phillips, Mike         15:46  -17   3/18  1- 2  0- 0  1- 2  2/19  1/ 5  0/29  3/27  0/19  2/14  3/14   1 1.02
White, Curtis          15:22  -11   3/18  0- 0  1- 5  0- 0  5/20  1/ 5  0/28  0/28  0/15  0/15  1/13   0 0.60
Kirkpatrick, Paul      13:56  -12   4/14  1- 2  0- 0  2- 5  2/18  0/ 4  0/23  3/24  0/17  3/15  3/12   1 0.91
Thompson, Calvin       10:50  - 7   6/14  3- 4  0- 1  0- 0  5/18  0/ 3  0/21  2/21  0/17  0/12  1/12   2 1.20
Johnson, Tyreak         7:37  - 5   1/ 9  0- 0  0- 2  1- 2  2/ 7  0/ 2  0/11  2/11  0/ 5  0/ 7  0/ 6   0 0.34
Mukole, Kandi           5:19  - 3   1/ 8  0- 0  0- 1  1- 2  1/ 8  0/ 3  0/12  0/12  0/ 6  0/ 5  0/ 6   0 0.51
Walker, Adam            4:58  - 2   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 7  0/ 2  0/ 8  0/ 9  0/ 4  0/ 6  0/ 4   2   --
Collins, Dadrian        3:08  + 1   0/ 3  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 3  0/ 1  0/ 3  0/ 3  0/ 3  0/ 3  0/ 3   1 0.00
Lawrence, Gary          2:45  - 6   0/ 3  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 3  0/ 1  1/ 6  0/ 5  0/ 5  0/ 2  0/ 3   0 0.00
Braimbridge, Yannick    1:31  - 5   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  1/ 4  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0   0   --
Dickerson, Anton        0:44  + 1   0/ 1  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 0   0   --
TOTALS                 40:00          23  7-11  1-15  6-13    26  3/ 8  2/36 11/37  0/23  7/20 11/18   8 0.71
                                          .636  .067  .462        .375  .056  .297  .000  .350  .611    

Indiana                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Creek, Maurice         15:31  +18   9/36  1- 4  2- 4  1- 2  8/27  1/11  1/30  0/30  1/ 8  2/14  0/16   1 1.01
Rivers, Jeremiah       13:54  +11   4/27  2- 5  0- 0  0- 0  5/23  3/10  1/27  3/26  0/10  0/12  2/15   2 0.80
Watford, Christian     13:26  +12   7/30  1- 3  1- 1  2- 2  4/25  1/10  0/25  1/26  1/ 8  2/14  5/14   0 1.41
Jones III, Verdell     11:56  + 8   3/26  0- 2  1- 2  0- 0  4/21  1/ 9  0/21  0/22  0/ 7  0/11  0/13   0 0.75
Pritchard, Tom          9:15  +15   6/26  3- 3  0- 0  0- 0  3/18  0/ 8  0/17  0/17  1/ 6  2/ 7  1/10   2 2.00
Hulls, Jordan           7:27  + 5   0/13  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/11  2/ 4  0/10  0/11  0/ 2  0/ 7  1/ 6   1 0.00
Elston, Derek           6:33  + 5   9/10  3- 3  1- 1  0- 0  4/ 8  0/ 0  1/11  0/10  0/ 3  1/ 4  1/ 6   0 2.25
Dumes, Devan            5:56  + 3   2/ 8  1- 1  0- 1  0- 2  2/10  0/ 3  0/11  0/11  0/ 3  0/ 7  1/ 5   0 0.68
Capobianco, Bobby       5:20  - 1   0/ 5  0- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/ 8  0/ 2  0/10  2/10  0/ 4  0/ 7  0/ 6   2 0.00
Roth, Matt              5:14  + 6   0/10  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 7  0/ 4  0/10  1/ 9  0/ 3  0/ 3  1/ 5   0   --
Jobe, Tijan             3:17  + 4   0/ 9  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 5  0/ 6  0/ 0  0/ 3  0/ 2   1   --
Muniru, Bawa            2:05  - 1   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 2   0   --
TOTALS                 40:00          40 11-23  5-10  3- 6    33  8/16  3/37  7/36  3/11  7/18 13/20   9 1.12
                                          .478  .500  .500        .500  .081  .194  .273  .389  .650    

Efficiency: Howard 0.622, Indiana 1.111
eFG%: Howard 32.7, Indiana 56.1
Substitutions: Howard 24, Indiana 26

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Howard 1-1, Indiana 1-1
Layups/Tips: Howard 5-8, Indiana 9-15
Jumpers: Howard 1-2, Indiana 1-7

2nd Half Only
Howard                  Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Walker, Adam           17:22  + 3   7/35  2- 4  0- 0  3- 4  4/26  0/ 8  0/32  0/33  0/18  2/20  3/10   0 1.19
White, Curtis          15:39  - 2   7/30  1- 1  1- 1  2- 2  2/21  0/ 6  1/31  1/29  1/22  0/17  0/10   1 2.37
Thompson, Calvin       13:11  - 7   7/26  2- 4  0- 0  3- 4  4/14  2/ 6  0/24  1/24  0/17  0/ 8  1/ 7   1 1.19
Phillips, Mike         12:41  -11   5/23  1- 3  0- 0  3- 4  3/16  0/ 5  0/25  0/23  0/21  2/13  2/ 7   0 1.02
Riley, Kyle             7:40  -11   3/10  0- 0  1- 3  0- 1  3/ 7  0/ 2  2/14  2/15  0/11  0/ 6  0/ 5   4 0.86
Kirkpatrick, Paul       7:05  -11   0/ 9  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 5  0/ 3  0/13  2/13  0/11  0/ 3  1/ 5   0 0.00
Collins, Dadrian        6:24  - 3   0/10  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 7  1/ 3  0/10  0/12  0/ 6  0/ 5  0/ 4   0   --
Dickerson, Anton        5:37  + 1   5/14  1- 3  1- 2  0- 0  5/11  0/ 2  0/12  0/10  0/ 8  0/ 7  0/ 3   0 1.00
Johnson, Tyreak         5:15  -12   1/ 5  0- 1  0- 0  1- 2  1/ 7  0/ 1  0/12  2/11  0/11  0/ 7  0/ 3   1 0.51
Braimbridge, Yannick    3:07  + 8   0/ 8  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 7  1/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 5  0/ 0  0/ 5  0/ 2   0 0.00
Lawrence, Gary          3:07  + 8   2/ 8  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 7  0/ 2  0/ 4  0/ 5  0/ 0  1/ 5  1/ 2   0 2.00
Mukole, Kandi           2:50  + 7   0/ 7  0- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/ 7  1/ 3  1/ 4  0/ 5  0/ 0  2/ 4  0/ 2   1 0.00
TOTALS                 40:00          37  8-20  3- 7 12-17    27  5/11  4/38  8/37  1/25  7/20  9/12   8 1.05
                                          .400  .429  .706        .455  .105  .216  .040  .350  .750    

Indiana                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Rivers, Jeremiah       11:39  + 7   2/27  0- 3  0- 0  2- 2  3/17  1/10  0/20  1/20  1/ 7  0/ 7  2/ 5   0 0.51
Watford, Christian     11:16  +15   7/30  2- 2  0- 0  3- 3  2/19  0/10  1/22  1/21  0/ 6  0/ 7  4/ 8   3 2.04
Pritchard, Tom         11:09  +12   4/30  2- 3  0- 0  0- 0  3/19  2/10  0/21  0/20  0/10  2/ 7  0/ 7   0 1.33
Jones III, Verdell     10:16  + 9   6/24  3- 7  0- 1  0- 0  8/19  1/ 8  1/21  1/21  1/10  0/ 8  1/13   1 0.75
Hulls, Jordan           9:16  + 2   2/20  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/14  3/ 8  0/19  0/19  0/10  0/ 6  1/13   0 2.00
Creek, Maurice          7:56  + 8   8/24  4- 4  0- 0  0- 0  4/16  1/ 7  0/13  0/16  0/10  0/ 5  1/ 7   1 2.00
Dumes, Devan            7:31  + 2   5/19  1- 1  1- 2  0- 0  3/10  3/ 5  2/12  3/13  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 3   1 1.67
Elston, Derek           6:31  - 4   5/13  1- 2  1- 1  0- 0  3/10  0/ 4  0/11  0/13  0/10  0/ 4  1/ 8   2 1.67
Moore, Daniel           6:00    0   0/ 9  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/12  1/10  0/ 8  0/ 3  1/ 7   2   --
Muniru, Bawa            4:28  - 4   2/ 4  1- 1  0- 0  0- 2  1/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 8  0/ 8  1/ 9  0/ 3  1/10   1 1.03
Finkelmeier, Brett      3:07  - 8   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 5  0/ 4  0/ 5  1/ 2  1/ 5   0   --
Jobe, Tijan             2:23  - 5   0/ 3  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0   0   --
Barnett, Kory           2:12  - 5   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 4  0/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 4   0   --
Gambles, Steven         2:12  - 5   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 4  1/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 1  0/ 4   0   --
Capobianco, Bobby       2:00  + 3   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 4  1/ 3  0/ 5  0/ 5  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 3   1   --
Roth, Matt              2:00  + 3   2/ 6  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 4  0/ 2  0/ 5  0/ 5  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 3   1 2.00
TOTALS                 40:00          43 16-25  2- 4  5- 7    29 12/18  4/37  8/38  3/20  3/12 13/20  13 1.33
                                          .640  .500  .714        .667  .108  .211  .150  .250  .650    

Efficiency: Howard 1.000, Indiana 1.132
eFG%: Howard 46.3, Indiana 65.5
Substitutions: Howard 21, Indiana 24

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Howard 0-0, Indiana 3-3
Layups/Tips: Howard 3-6, Indiana 9-12
Jumpers: Howard 5-14, Indiana 4-10

Big Ten 20089-2009 Tempo Free Stats

We’ve updated the Temp Free Stats for the Big Ten (conference games only). You can find them here.

Big Ten By the Numbers 2008-2009

Update: We've been slacking on this project for the 2008-2009 season, but we’ve finally gotten things squared away so we can post the data. Here are the numbers, current through 2/9/2009. 

We have a little project here at SaWA to be able to look at stats for the Big Ten teams.  For the most part, we use Ken Pomeroy's excellent site as our stats resource, and we neither aspire to nor hope to duplicate (much less exceed) that effort.  However, we thought we might be able to complement it at bit for Big Ten teams. When John Gasaway was knows as the Big Ten Wonk, he advocated that stats for conference games only were the real stuff when it game to useful data, given that most teams overall season numbers are possibly distorted by playing weak competition in the non-conference season. In fact, Gasaway continues to look at those numbers at Basketball Prospectus. We plan on doing some of that, and adding a little more.

First, here are the efficiency numbers for all of the Big Ten teams for conference games only. O Eff is offensive efficiency, or points per possession (PPP) scored. D Eff is defensive efficiency, or PPP allowed. Eff Margin is just O Eff - D Eff. The numbers in parentheses are the conference ranks for that column.

Team	Tempo	O Eff	D Eff	Eff Margin
Michigan State	63.7 (3)	1.12 (1)	0.96 (3)	0.16 (1)
Purdue	63.8 (2)	1.03 (5)	0.95 (2)	0.08 (2)
Illinois	61.0 (9)	0.99 (7)	0.94 (1)	0.05 (3)
Ohio State	63.6 (4)	1.06 (3)	1.02 (5)	0.04 (4)
Wisconsin	59.0 (10)	1.08 (2)	1.04 (7)	0.04 (5)
Minnesota	63.1 (5)	0.99 (9)	0.99 (4)	0.00 (6)
Penn State	62.0 (6)	1.04 (4)	1.05 (8)	-0.01 (7)
Michigan	61.8 (7)	0.99 (8)	1.03 (6)	-0.04 (8)
Northwestern	61.5 (8)	1.02 (6)	1.08 (9)	-0.06 (9)
Iowa	58.2 (11)	0.99 (10)	1.08 (10)	-0.10 (10)
Indiana	64.6 (1)	0.94 (11)	1.11 (11)	-0.17 (11)

That's some good stuff, no? I thought about saving this next piece until the end, because it's without question the coup de grace and all, but it really belongs here. This is another Wonk construct. He used to post a graph showing where teams registered pictorially in terms of O Eff vs. D Eff. And since Lawton loves the charts, here is that very type of graph. (I'm hoping it won't look as crappy as I fear it will, but we'll see, and deal with it later if it does.)

But wait! There's more! Here are the offensive numbers. If you want some explanation, check them out here. The only difference is that these efficiency numbers are per possession rather than per 100 possessions. Conference ranks in parentheses.

Big Ten Offensive Stats

Team	O Eff	eFG%	TO%	OR%	FTRate
Michigan State	1.12 (1)	50.2 (6)	21.1 (7)	45.6 (1)	26.9 (3)
Wisconsin	1.08 (2)	50.7 (5)	16.0 (1)	29.9 (5)	21.7 (8)
Ohio State	1.06 (3)	57.3 (1)	21.9 (8)	25.8 (10)	27.1 (2)
Penn State	1.04 (4)	49.9 (7)	18.2 (4)	34.4 (3)	20.1 (10)
Purdue	1.03 (5)	52.9 (2)	20.7 (6)	27.2 (9)	28.0 (1)
Northwestern	1.02 (6)	51.6 (3)	16.7 (2)	19.8 (11)	23.2 (6)
Illinois	0.99 (7)	47.8 (9)	17.0 (3)	28.5 (7)	16.9 (11)
Michigan	0.99 (8)	47.1 (10)	18.6 (5)	29.2 (6)	20.2 (9)
Minnesota	0.99 (9)	46.7 (11)	22.6 (9)	36.5 (2)	22.6 (7)
Iowa	0.99 (10)	50.9 (4)	24.1 (10)	28.5 (8)	26.0 (4)
Indiana	0.94 (11)	47.9 (8)	25.1 (11)	34.1 (4)	23.8 (5)
Team	2FG%	3FG%	FT%	3FGA/FGA	A/FGM
Michigan State	48.7 (5)	35.9 (6)	70.3 (6)	29.8 (11)	60.3 (6)
Wisconsin	49.0 (4)	35.9 (6)	75.7 (1)	34.7 (5)	53.8 (9)
Ohio State	54.4 (1)	41.8 (1)	68.6 (10)	34.3 (6)	57.5 (7)
Penn State	46.2 (9)	37.1 (4)	61.7 (11)	39.6 (4)	53.3 (10)
Purdue	49.2 (3)	40.3 (2)	70.9 (5)	32.8 (8)	65.2 (4)
Northwestern	48.5 (6)	36.9 (5)	69.3 (8)	45.5 (3)	67.3 (1)
Illinois	49.3 (2)	29.7 (11)	73.6 (4)	31.6 (10)	66.0 (2)
Michigan	48.3 (7)	30.7 (10)	75.0 (3)	50.5 (1)	65.8 (3)
Minnesota	45.8 (10)	32.5 (9)	69.6 (7)	33.0 (7)	52.6 (11)
Iowa	48.2 (8)	35.8 (8)	75.6 (2)	48.6 (2)	61.6 (5)
Indiana	42.8 (11)	39.2 (3)	68.9 (9)	32.4 (9)	55.9 (8)

 

That's not all! Here are the defensive numbers. Conference ranks in parentheses.

Big Ten Defensive Stats

Team	D Eff	eFG%	TO%	OR%	FTRate
Illinois	0.94 (1)	45.3 (2)	20.2 (5)	32.8 (7)	17.2 (1)
Purdue	0.95 (2)	45.2 (1)	19.5 (7)	30.5 (6)	20.0 (3)
Michigan State	0.96 (3)	48.6 (4)	20.1 (6)	26.1 (3)	22.9 (6)
Minnesota	0.99 (4)	46.9 (3)	22.4 (2)	36.0 (10)	26.7 (8)
Ohio State	1.02 (5)	50.3 (6)	22.1 (3)	33.9 (9)	20.3 (4)
Michigan	1.03 (6)	53.6 (10)	20.2 (4)	27.7 (4)	19.2 (2)
Wisconsin	1.04 (7)	49.8 (5)	16.4 (11)	26.0 (1)	26.8 (9)
Penn State	1.05 (8)	51.4 (7)	18.5 (9)	29.1 (5)	21.7 (5)
Northwestern	1.08 (9)	52.7 (9)	25.5 (1)	41.0 (11)	28.6 (10)
Iowa	1.08 (10)	51.8 (8)	18.4 (10)	33.7 (8)	23.7 (7)
Indiana	1.11 (11)	56.6 (11)	19.4 (8)	26.0 (2)	29.4 (11)
Team	2FG%	3FG%	FT%	3FGA/FGA	A/FGM
Illinois	44.3 (3)	31.4 (1)	62.8 (1)	34.8 (9)	59.1 (6)
Purdue	41.2 (1)	36.2 (7)	68.2 (4)	30.0 (11)	62.7 (8)
Michigan State	48.9 (6)	32.1 (2)	65.3 (2)	41.9 (4)	55.6 (2)
Minnesota	43.5 (2)	35.3 (5)	74.0 (8)	35.4 (7)	56.8 (4)
Ohio State	46.8 (4)	36.8 (8)	74.2 (9)	41.9 (3)	64.2 (10)
Michigan	53.2 (9)	36.2 (6)	66.5 (3)	35.7 (6)	60.5 (7)
Wisconsin	49.2 (7)	33.9 (4)	72.7 (7)	33.3 (10)	47.9 (1)
Penn State	53.3 (10)	32.1 (3)	75.5 (11)	36.8 (5)	59.0 (5)
Northwestern	47.3 (5)	39.7 (10)	74.3 (10)	44.2 (1)	71.6 (11)
Iowa	49.7 (8)	37.1 (9)	69.3 (5)	35.1 (8)	56.4 (3)
Indiana	53.9 (11)	40.1 (11)	72.1 (6)	42.5 (2)	64.1 (9)

Iowa vs. Indiana HD Box 2-4-09

Iowa vs Indiana
02-04-09 6:36 p.m. at Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Ind.

Iowa                    Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Gatens, Matt           39:00  - 8  22/58  4- 6  3- 9  5- 6 15/46  0/12  0/58  1/57  1/33  2/30  2/31   4 1.23
Peterson, Jeff         38:46  -10  12/58  3- 6  1- 2  3- 5  8/47  5/15  2/58  6/57  1/32  2/31  3/29   4 1.16
Cole, Jarryd           28:41  -10   7/38  2- 5  0- 0  3- 6  5/36  0/12  0/42  2/42  1/25  5/24  1/22   3 0.89
Davis, Jermain         28:14  + 1   8/40  3- 4  0- 2  2- 2  6/29  0/10  0/41  0/38  0/26  0/16  4/20   4 1.15
Bawinkel, Devan        23:02  -13   3/36  0- 1  1- 3  0- 0  4/31  0/11  1/36  1/37  0/21  0/22  3/21   2 0.75
Kelly, Jake            22:30  + 7   2/39  1- 3  0- 0  0- 0  3/29  5/12  1/33  3/32  0/17  0/17  2/16   4 0.67
Fuller, Aaron          10:15  - 2   5/16  1- 1  1- 4  0- 0  5/14  0/ 4  0/16  0/17  0/ 8  0/10  0/10   2 1.00
Palmer, David           5:06  - 7   1/ 4  0- 1  0- 0  1- 2  1/ 3  0/ 1  0/10  0/ 9  0/ 4  0/ 3  1/ 4   1 0.51
Brommer, Andrew         4:20  + 2   0/11  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 5  0/ 3  0/ 6  1/ 6  1/ 4  0/ 2  2/ 2   0 0.00
TOTALS                 40:00          60 14-28  6-20 14-21    48 10/20  4/60 14/60  4/34 13/31 19/31  24 1.03
                                          .500  .300  .667        .500  .067  .233  .118  .419  .613    

Indiana                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Taber, Kyle            37:22  +10   7/64  3- 6  0- 0  1- 3  6/43  1/18  1/55  1/55  2/26  2/27  6/31   2 0.94
Williams, Nick         35:16  +12  14/62  4- 9  0- 0  6- 6  9/44  1/17  2/52  1/50  1/25  6/29  3/28   1 1.18
Dumes, Devan           34:27  +12  27/62  3- 4  5- 5  6- 8  9/39  2/12  2/51  2/51  0/23  1/26  3/28   2 2.11
Jones, Verdell         33:37  + 9   4/60  1- 5  0- 0  2- 6  5/38  6/20  0/49  3/51  0/23  0/23  1/27   3 0.51
Roth, Matt             22:07  + 6   5/41  1- 1  1- 6  0- 1  7/26  0/10  0/33  1/34  0/15  0/20  0/20   3 0.67
Story, Malik           14:56  + 1   9/26  3- 6  1- 2  0- 0  8/24  0/ 7  0/25  1/26  0/11  1/14  3/ 7   3 1.13
Pritchard, Tom         14:13  - 3   2/17  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/11  1/ 6  0/18  2/20  1/11  1/ 6  1/ 9   5 1.00
Moore, Daniel           7:34  - 6   0/ 8  0- 1  0- 0  0- 1  1/10  2/ 2  1/12  0/12  0/ 6  0/ 9  1/ 5   1 0.00
Lewis, Broderick        0:24  - 1   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 0   0   --
TOTALS                 40:00          68 16-34  7-13 15-25    47 13/23  6/60 11/60  4/28 12/31 18/31  20 1.15
                                          .471  .538  .600        .565  .100  .183  .143  .387  .581    

Efficiency: Iowa 1.000, Indiana 1.133
eFG%: Iowa 47.9, Indiana 56.4
Substitutions: Iowa 22, Indiana 32

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Iowa 0-1, Indiana 0-0
Layups/Tips: Iowa 13-20, Indiana 12-22
Jumpers: Iowa 1-7, Indiana 4-12

The HD Box Score is something created by Ken Pomeroy, which I've tried to duplicate for my own purposes. kenpom explains the data here. The only thing different here is the Points Per Weighted Shot (PPWS) column, which John Gasaway (the erstwhile Big Ten Wonk) told me about here.

Rutgers vs. Georgetown HD Box 2-3-09

Rutgers vs GU
02/03/09 7:00 at Verizon Center

Rutgers                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Rosario, Mike          34:24  -11  20/41  3- 9  4- 8  2- 2 17/40  1/ 8  2/53  5/54  1/29  1/25  2/29   2 1.11
Farmer, Anthony        30:18  -11   7/32  2- 6  1- 2  0- 0  8/33  5/ 8  1/46  1/45  0/28  0/22  2/30   1 0.88
NDiaye, Hamady         28:17  + 4   7/38  2- 2  0- 0  3- 3  2/33  0/12  0/42  3/42  1/18  0/20  5/20   2 2.04
Echenique, Gregory     24:26  -19   2/19  1- 4  0- 0  0- 0  4/21  0/ 5  0/37  0/36  2/24  0/15  3/25   1 0.50
Pettis, Earl           23:45  - 3   8/33  3- 4  0- 0  2- 3  4/28  1/ 9  3/36  2/36  0/17  2/17  3/16   3 1.47
Chandler, Corey        19:26  - 8   0/18  0- 3  0- 0  0- 0  3/17  1/ 6  0/28  8/30  0/15  1/12  2/18   1 0.00
Griffin, Jaron         15:09  + 7   3/26  0- 0  1- 3  0- 0  3/22  0/10  0/23  0/23  0/11  0/11  1/13   2 1.00
Inman, J.R.            12:03  -11   0/11  0- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/12  0/ 3  0/18  0/20  0/ 9  1/10  4/ 8   3 0.00
Coburn, Mike           11:00  + 3   0/17  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/12  2/ 7  0/15  2/17  0/ 4  0/ 6  1/ 5   0 0.00
Kuhn, Mike              1:03    0   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 2  0/ 1   0   --
Jackson, Patrick        0:04  - 1   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0   0   --
TOTALS                 40:00          47 11-31  6-13  7- 8    44 10/17  6/62 21/62  4/31  7/28 23/33  15 0.98
                                          .355  .462  .875        .588  .097  .339  .129  .250  .697    

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Monroe, Greg           34:44  +20  10/53  4- 8  0- 0  2- 5  8/45  6/16  4/53  2/53  0/27  1/29  6/26   0 0.96
Freeman, Austin        32:21  + 7   7/45  1- 3  1- 3  2- 2  6/41  3/14  1/48  2/48  0/23  0/28  4/21   2 1.01
Wright, Chris          31:55  + 8   5/45  2- 7  0- 2  1- 2  9/38  3/14  2/49  1/47  0/27  1/26  0/21   1 0.50
Sapp, Jessie           21:56  + 1  11/32  2- 3  2- 2  1- 2  5/30  0/ 9  0/34  1/34  0/17  1/19  3/15   1 1.85
Clark, Jason           20:22  + 6   6/29  0- 0  2- 3  0- 0  3/22  2/ 9  2/31  2/30  1/17  1/15  2/17   1 2.00
Mescheriakov, Nikita   20:03  + 1   7/27  2- 2  1- 5  0- 0  7/23  0/ 7  1/30  2/31  0/17  0/14  0/15   5 1.00
Summers, DaJuan        16:41  - 3   5/22  1- 3  1- 3  0- 0  6/20  1/ 6  1/25  3/25  0/14  1/15  2/10   3 0.83
Sims, Henry            13:58  + 3   6/19  2- 4  0- 0  2- 4  4/17  0/ 4  0/22  0/21  0/ 8  2/13  1/ 8   1 1.02
Wattad, Omar            6:06  +11   0/13  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 8  0/ 5  0/10  1/ 9  0/ 4  0/ 5  0/ 6   0 0.00
Vaughn, Julian          1:52  - 4   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 1   2   --
TOTALS                 40:00          57 14-31  7-18  8-15    49 15/21 11/62 14/62  1/31 10/33 21/28  16 1.02
                                          .452  .389  .533        .714  .177  .226  .032  .303  .750    

Efficiency: Rutgers 0.758, Georgetown 0.919
eFG%: Rutgers 45.5, Georgetown 50.0
Substitutions: Rutgers 27, Georgetown 27

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Rutgers 2-2, Georgetown 0-0
Layups/Tips: Rutgers 6-12, Georgetown 11-21
Jumpers: Rutgers 3-17, Georgetown 3-10

The HD Box Score is something created by Ken Pomeroy, which I've tried to duplicate for my own purposes. kenpom explains the data here. The only thing different here is the Points Per Weighted Shot (PPWS) column, which John Gasaway (the erstwhile Big Ten Wonk) told me about here.

Ohio State vs. Indiana HD Box 1-31-09

Ohio State vs Indiana
01-31-09 4:05 p.m. at Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Ind.

Ohio State              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Diebler, Jon           40:00  +12  21/93  1- 1  5- 7  4- 6  8/46  3/23  0/70  3/71  0/29  0/20  2/31   1 1.94
Turner, Evan           38:50  +14  29/93 10-12  0- 2  9-10 14/46  3/19  3/68  7/70  1/28  0/20 10/31   2 1.55
Buford, William        36:52  +15  24/89  6- 9  2- 3  6- 6 12/40  2/20  2/63  3/64  1/28  0/15  1/30   2 1.62
Simmons, Jeremie       30:32  +20  17/77  2- 3  3- 5  4- 5  8/41  8/21  1/51  1/54  0/17  2/17  0/17   1 1.64
Lauderdale, Dallas     24:52  + 3   0/55  0- 0  0- 0  0- 1  0/28  0/18  1/41  1/41  2/19  1/13  2/21   4 0.00
Mullens, B.J.          11:20  + 4   0/23  0- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/16  0/ 7  0/23  1/23  0/ 9  1/ 9  2/ 8   2 0.00
Hill, P.J.              9:28  - 8   2/16  0- 0  0- 0  2- 2  0/ 5  1/ 3  0/19  1/17  0/12  0/ 3  3/14   2 2.11
Madsen, Kyle            8:03    0   0/19  0- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/ 8  0/ 5  0/15  0/15  0/ 3  1/ 3  0/ 3   2 0.00
TOTALS                 40:00          93 19-29 10-17 25-30    46 17/29  7/71 17/76  4/29  5/20 21/31  16 1.54
                                          .655  .588  .833        .586  .099  .224  .138  .250  .677    

Indiana                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF PPWS
Jones, Verdell         33:35  -18   9/65  1- 4  2- 6  1- 3 10/51  6/19  1/60  2/57  0/25  5/29  1/15   3 0.79
Taber, Kyle            32:52  - 1   4/70  2- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/44  4/22  3/52  0/55  0/22  1/22  1/12   2 2.00
Pritchard, Tom         28:30  - 5   9/58  2- 8  0- 0  5- 7  8/43  3/17  1/51  2/51  1/21  2/26  4/14   4 0.79
Roth, Matt             27:42  + 4  29/63  0- 0  9-11  2- 2 11/41  0/11  0/49  0/51  1/19  0/24  0/16   4 2.43
Williams, Nick         25:07  - 7  11/52  4- 8  0- 1  3- 4  9/41  1/14  0/45  2/44  0/17  1/23  5/12   4 1.01
Dumes, Devan           23:47  -18  13/44  2- 5  3- 8  0- 0 13/36  1/11  2/43  3/42  0/17  0/19  2/13   3 1.00
Story, Malik           12:05  - 8   5/22  1- 1  1- 2  0- 0  3/12  0/ 5  0/22  3/21  0/10  0/ 4  1/ 6   2 1.67
Lewis, Broderick        8:15  -13   0/10  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/10  0/ 3  0/18  0/14  0/ 9  0/ 6  1/ 7   1 0.00
Moore, Daniel           8:05  + 6   1/21  0- 0  0- 0  1- 2  0/ 7  5/ 6  1/15  1/15  0/ 5  0/ 2  0/ 5   0 1.05
TOTALS                 40:00          81 12-29 15-28 12-18    57 20/27  8/76 15/71  2/29 10/31 15/20  23 1.24
                                          .414  .536  .667        .741  .105  .211  .069  .323  .750    

Efficiency: Ohio State 1.224, Indiana 1.141
eFG%: Ohio State 73.9, Indiana 60.5
Substitutions: Ohio State 25, Indiana 41

2-pt shot selection
Dunks: Ohio State 0-0, Indiana 0-0
Layups/Tips: Ohio State 12-19, Indiana 8-17
Jumpers: Ohio State 7-10, Indiana 4-12

The HD Box Score is something created by Ken Pomeroy, which I've tried to duplicate for my own purposes. kenpom explains the data here. The only thing different here is the Points Per Weighted Shot (PPWS) column, which John Gasaway (the erstwhile Big Ten Wonk) told me about here.