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Scouting report on New Mexico’s dominant defense

March 18, 2025 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

What if I told you New Mexico’s defense was not only a top-20 D in the country, but also strong in the spots Marquette most likes to operate?

What’s up with Marquette’s shooting?

February 3, 2025 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

Marquette is shooting more 3s than ever, but doing so at one of the worst rates in the last decade. What does the underlying data have to tell us about it?

What does Marquette’s Synergy Shot Quality tell us?

January 6, 2023 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

Synergy has given us a way to measure shot quality, and the results put Marquette in an even better light.

How does this year’s start compare to last season?

November 18, 2022 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

Is it fair to say that this team with less wins has played quite a bit better?

Can Marquette improve the shot quality it allows?

December 28, 2020 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

Marquette’s defensive stats are bad. What does it mean when the underlying ones are worse?

Markus, MU have a big, short and midrange problem

February 26, 2020 | Andrei Greska | 0 Comments

If you have a Twitter, like well made informative charts, and don’t follow @jgtrends on Twitter, you’re really missing out on some of the most insightful advanced metrics in college basketball as a whole. Yesterday in particular, he put out this chart of the points each shot has been worth to top-25 teams this year, […]