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per FSN:
The 31-year-old Pitino has been an ardent follower of Pomeroy's work for quite some time.
"I think more than anything, it gives you another way to illustrate your point," Pitino said Friday. "We were a really good offensive efficient team, Minnesota was, last year, but defensively we weren't great. It just shows we were a good team, we weren't a great team. If you want to be a great team, you've got to get those numbers at a high ranking, so it's a good illustration of that."
Pitino said his current Gophers team also ranks near the top of the Big Ten in offensive efficiency but falls toward the bottom in defensive efficiency, according to the KenPom rankings. With the Big Ten schedule set to begin shortly, he knows those numbers will have to improve.
"If we continue with those numbers, we're going to be at the bottom of the Big Ten," Pitino said. "If we stay offensively at that number and we improve defensively on that number, we can make a run at it. We've got a long way to go, definitely, but the thing I love, these guys' attitudes are great."
http://msn.foxsports.com/north/story/gophers-notebook-richard-pitino-uses-advanced-stats-122713
Go Gophers!!
The 31-year-old Pitino has been an ardent follower of Pomeroy's work for quite some time.
"I think more than anything, it gives you another way to illustrate your point," Pitino said Friday. "We were a really good offensive efficient team, Minnesota was, last year, but defensively we weren't great. It just shows we were a good team, we weren't a great team. If you want to be a great team, you've got to get those numbers at a high ranking, so it's a good illustration of that."
Pitino said his current Gophers team also ranks near the top of the Big Ten in offensive efficiency but falls toward the bottom in defensive efficiency, according to the KenPom rankings. With the Big Ten schedule set to begin shortly, he knows those numbers will have to improve.
"If we continue with those numbers, we're going to be at the bottom of the Big Ten," Pitino said. "If we stay offensively at that number and we improve defensively on that number, we can make a run at it. We've got a long way to go, definitely, but the thing I love, these guys' attitudes are great."
http://msn.foxsports.com/north/story/gophers-notebook-richard-pitino-uses-advanced-stats-122713
Go Gophers!!