Missouri’s basketball coach Dennis Gates believes in a southeast conference of 14 BID.
Not for the first time this season, Gates asked the selection committee not only to break the record of the Big East conference of 11 dance teams in a single NCAA tournament, but to break this issue when the field is announced on Sunday, March 16.
Fourteen is immediately relevant for the Tigers, because this number of dry moorings would probably put the next Mizzou opponent – Oklahoma, 14th placed – in the March Madness field. However, it ends up shaking up, the Sooners are currently on the bubble, and it was a dangerous match for Mizzou recently.
Vanderbilt mainly guaranteed its place on the field by beating Mizzou in overtime on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. A week earlier in Fayetteville, in Arkansas, coach’s Razorbacks John Calipari added a victory so necessary for their tournament references with a seven points victory on the Tigers.
Notice the model? Two games against teams fighting for their lives and two defeats.
Mizzou (21-8, 10-6 seconds) has many post-season reasons for schooling this trend against Sooners (17-12, 4-12) when he moves for a confrontation on Wednesday evening in Norman, in Oklahoma.
A victory maintains the Missouri alive at the hunt for a dry tournament to be seen again before its regular season final. The tigers also ride the line for a seeded of the first four in March, and a few victories before the conference tournament could be the Pusé Porte team must take down a protected seed.
Put a nail – perhaps the last nail – in the coffin of the or is the starting point.
“I think your identity as a team is consistency. You just have to be consistent, and it’s my concentration and my message to our guys. We know what is at stake, ”said Gates. “It’s Mars. It’s Mars, and it’s the conference season, and everything we do and say must correspond, and we have to go out and give our best because we do not want to take steps as a team. “”
Mizzou did not step back by most of the predictive measures, but losing two games against bubble teams in the last three games, the Tigers have lost some control over their future.
And it is quite clear where the games were lost.
Mizzou lost the battle in painting against Arkansas and Vanderbilt. The two teams combined for 92 points in this area of the court against the Tigers, the razorbacks totaling 44 and the commodores by mounting 48. There were different reasons for the common and wide trend, said Gates.
“So, (the) Arkansas match, it was 37 attempts to throw franc (for the Arkansas) at 17 (for the Missouri), and we were doing a lot of fault. So that contributed to their touches of painting, right? Our inability to stop aggressively descent and not have problems big times, ”said Gates. “When you look at Vanderbilt, theirs were also a little different. Theirs were more rebounds and offensive faults and also drive in the second half. »»
These are trends to monitor MU as it moves until March.
In the last five games, Mizzou is in the lowest 1% of all the teams across the country, according to CBB Analytics, for a percentage of defensive rebounds, allowing opponents to grasp 38.1% of the offensive boards available. This has helped the type of appearance that the Mizzou opponents receive, and a large contributor to Mizzou in the lowest 2% on a national scale for the percentage of defensive efficient field goals.
The tigers are also in the 14% lower in the last five games for the attempted launch rate of adversaries, this number recording 39%.
If MU wants to make a kind of walking, they must be brips.
“We have to defend how we have to defend,” said Gates, “and we will do a great job to get the result we want.”
The coach has one point.
There is a solid case that Mizzou is the most effective global offensive team in the country at the moment.
In the last five Tigers games, they rank in the most top 10% on a national scale for the percentage of offensive rebounds, the rate of attempted franc and the percentage of turnover. They are in the 100th centile – the elite elite – for an effective percentage of the objectives in the field, a percentage of goals in the field in 2 points, a real percentage of shooting and an overall offensive note.
However, the tigers went 3-2 when recording these light numbers.
The Missouri excelled in its latest confrontation against or, leading the Sooners of Mizzou Arena Floor in an 82-58 victory by effectively closing the fears of a first and a star of the star. While the Sooners concentrated their defensive energy closing the sniper Caleb Grill, Mark Mitchell was enjoyed at low altitude with a night of 25 points then at the time.
But, it is an or for a victory and a victory and opportunities short of opportunities. The doors, to a certain extent, do not agree with this feeling by pleading for an evaluation of the dry of 14 bikes, but the bubble is the bubble and the Sooners overlap this line as much as any team in the country at the moment.
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To sweep the Sooners, tigers must start by protecting the paint. Because or will launch everything he has left in Mu, just like Arkansas and Vanderbilt.
“We just have to do a great job based on staff, understand that we are going,” said Gates. “Understand, because we are a defense of change, which we keep and defend at that time, and we must make sure that we close the goods. … And if we do a good job to close the goods, the shooting percentages drop, and obviously, our rhythm increases. »»
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: How Missouri basketball can cause the trend to be lost in relation to bubble teams in or
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