Finally I get a team that is a bona fide national champion candidate that hangs its hat on defense - that being Virginia. And what happens? Their 6th man, De'Andre Hunter (6th Man of the Year in the ACC) is out for the entire tournament. Ouch. Oh, well, maybe they can patch things together.
One advantage to playing at a slower pace, as Virginia does, is that you can get more minutes per game out of your players and still have them at peak efficiency. They had an 8-man rotation, and Hunter averaged 19.9 minutes per game. That comes out to 2.8 more minutes per game for the other rotation members. Plus maybe some of the guys farther down the bench can provide a few minutes here and there.
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