Category Archives: College Basketball

(Photo credit: TBT staff at thetournament.com) Marquette Alumni TBT Advanced Statistics The #1 seed in the Midwest, Golden Eagles (Marquette alumni) started off a bit slow, but ran away for a 103-89 victory over the Midwest Dream Squad. The traditional box score can be found on the The Tournament’s website HERE. Below, you can find […]

Marquette Again Improves Schedule in 2017-18 As they did a year ago, Marquette has improved their scheduling and projected RPI “strength of schedule”. Last year MU’s SOS, worth 50% of RPI, was .5621. Late Night Hoops projects an SOS of .5882 in 2017-18. That equals an RPI improvement in the SOS component of .0131. Had […]

A year ago, Minnesota’s RPI (20 on Selection Sunday) benefitted from their strong strength of schedule (as defined by the RPI – not as any rational human would define it). Their opponents’ strength of schedule (“SOS”), worth 50% of the RPI, was .5953 as the NCAA tourney field was being finalized. The Gophers enjoyed a […]

Markus Howard Off to a Strong, But Different, Start As a freshman, Markus Howard shot a nation-leading 54.7% from 3-point range. As we projected his sophomore campaign, expecting him to best or even match that percentage was not reasonable. We expect his 3-point shooting percentage to decline in 2017-18. How, then, could he improve this […]

Greg Elliott Posting Impressive Defensive Stats Early for Marquette With the departure of Haanif Cheatham earlier this week, Marquette freshman Greg Elliott may need to play a bigger role than he otherwise would have. This may be a good thing. Elliott (41.4% minutes played) has a block rate of 8.4% and a steal rate of […]

Sam Hauser Sits at #2 Nationally in 3FG% Markus Howard of Marquette was awarded an NCAA statistical plaque for having the nation’s best three-point field goal shooting percentage in 2016-17.  His teammate Sam Hauser is currently second in the nation for the 2017-18 award, but two non-NCAA teams may keep him away from the hardware. […]

Marquette’s Experience Ranking in 2018-19 Last season it was said that Marquette was a young team and that was true. The Warriors’ KenPom experience ranking sat at #313 (of 351 teams) with an experience score of 1.21. The NCAA D-I average was 1.70, with the median slightly higher at 1.74. Going through the process of […]

We recently commented on the difficulty in projecting minutes for Marquette’s stacked 2018-19 roster. Today, we look at projecting usage play-by-player, which is (or at least feels like) a much easier task. Before getting to our projections, we also looked at how many games each player posted a single-game usage greater than 25% thus far […]

Overall, the Big Ten’s composition is such that a couple of teams that look to be bottom-half teams could sneak up and snag a top half (and tournament) spot, especially with some consensus top-half teams we have concerns about, such as Nebraska. We see Minnesota as a bottom half team (around 10th), but there are […]

State of the Program The team needed shooting and scorers. The staff added it. Juniors Sam Hauser and Markus Howard are both sensational shooters, but there are several others capable of having exceptional shooting seasons. The team needed length and athleticism. The staff added it. We saw an influx last year with Jamal Cain and […]