I have taken my share of belittling because of my habit of trying to delve into the statistics to see why a team does or does not play well. "Just score more than the other team" is a frequent smart-aleck reply. But in the case of Wichita State, there is no doubt why they have been as good as they have.
National rankings out of 347 teams:
Scoring defense - #1
FG% defense - #7
Rebound margin - #51
Turnovers per game - #8
The bottom line is that they just played good basketball. Tough defense. Good rebounding. Take care of the ball. Yes, you still have to out-score the other teams, but when you do those things, the other guys are going to have to be very efficient indeed in their offense in order to out-score you. It puts a lot of pressure on the other team's offense, and most of the time they were not up to the task, and Wichita won.
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