Pace: 66 possessions.
Efficiency (points per 100 possessions):
Michigan -- 105
Indiana -- 83
Yuck. This one was bad from the start.
Holding Michigan to a 105 in Ann Arbor, that's actually not that bad. For comparison, UNC held Michigan to a 101 at UNC, and those two games are the lowest outputs for Michigan on offense this season thus far.
Last season, Michigan was held under a 105 at home four times.
IU just couldn't get anything going on offense. No need to overanalyze it. It was sloppy, everything from ball movement to ball security.
Michigan jumped out to an 18-4 lead in the opening 10 minutes. IU cut it to five at one point in the second half, but that was more due to a stretch of bad play from Michigan than anything the Hoosiers did. The Wolverines answered that immediately with an 8-0 run to get back out to a 13-point lead, and that was that.
Juwan Morgan was spectacular, finishing with 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting, plus contributing 8 rebounds. He took advantage of some one-on-one post matchups in the first half, methodically backing down his defender with some nice moves and footwork. Michigan started doubling him in the second half.
Other than Morgan, a lot of eyesores looking at the box score.
Indiana Identity Stats:
1) Defensive Effective Field Goal Percentage (like regular FG%, but gives 50 percent more credit to three pointers): 57.3 percent. Not good enough at all.
Michigan took more threes than twos, making 11-of-31 tries (36 percent) behind the arc and 15-of-24 (63 percent) twos.
2) Turnover Rate (turnovers/possessions): 17 percent, basically one every 5-6 possessions. This is decent actually, but not as good as the last few games. Still surprised me after the fact to see it, I thought IU was sloppier than this.
3) Offensive Rebounding Rate Allowed (how well you protected the defensive glass): 14 percent. Michigan grabbed 4 offensive rebounds in 29 opportunities (IU grabbed 25 defensive rebounds.) This is great but honestly Michigan doesn't even try to hit the offensive glass, so I don't know how much you want to look into it.
Summary/Looking Ahead:
You could give checkmarks for two of the three stats, but one of them Michigan basically gives you in offensive rebounding rate allowed.
IU could just not get anyone going offensively outside of Morgan, and the defense isn't good enough yet to win games like that.
Important game coming up against Iowa. It's a winnable one, and starting league play 1-1 would look much better than 0-2.
Efficiency (points per 100 possessions):
Michigan -- 105
Indiana -- 83
Yuck. This one was bad from the start.
Holding Michigan to a 105 in Ann Arbor, that's actually not that bad. For comparison, UNC held Michigan to a 101 at UNC, and those two games are the lowest outputs for Michigan on offense this season thus far.
Last season, Michigan was held under a 105 at home four times.
IU just couldn't get anything going on offense. No need to overanalyze it. It was sloppy, everything from ball movement to ball security.
Michigan jumped out to an 18-4 lead in the opening 10 minutes. IU cut it to five at one point in the second half, but that was more due to a stretch of bad play from Michigan than anything the Hoosiers did. The Wolverines answered that immediately with an 8-0 run to get back out to a 13-point lead, and that was that.
Juwan Morgan was spectacular, finishing with 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting, plus contributing 8 rebounds. He took advantage of some one-on-one post matchups in the first half, methodically backing down his defender with some nice moves and footwork. Michigan started doubling him in the second half.
Other than Morgan, a lot of eyesores looking at the box score.
Indiana Identity Stats:
1) Defensive Effective Field Goal Percentage (like regular FG%, but gives 50 percent more credit to three pointers): 57.3 percent. Not good enough at all.
Michigan took more threes than twos, making 11-of-31 tries (36 percent) behind the arc and 15-of-24 (63 percent) twos.
2) Turnover Rate (turnovers/possessions): 17 percent, basically one every 5-6 possessions. This is decent actually, but not as good as the last few games. Still surprised me after the fact to see it, I thought IU was sloppier than this.
3) Offensive Rebounding Rate Allowed (how well you protected the defensive glass): 14 percent. Michigan grabbed 4 offensive rebounds in 29 opportunities (IU grabbed 25 defensive rebounds.) This is great but honestly Michigan doesn't even try to hit the offensive glass, so I don't know how much you want to look into it.
Summary/Looking Ahead:
You could give checkmarks for two of the three stats, but one of them Michigan basically gives you in offensive rebounding rate allowed.
IU could just not get anyone going offensively outside of Morgan, and the defense isn't good enough yet to win games like that.
Important game coming up against Iowa. It's a winnable one, and starting league play 1-1 would look much better than 0-2.
