As the announcers were talking over halftime, one of the announcers marveled that Virginia is 34-3 when holding teams to under 70 points – and I immediately said, that is a stupid stat. That had to be close to their overall record. So, I looked it up.<\/p>\n
And Virginia’s record is 34-3. So, they totally botched it. Because Purdue scored 75 points, Maryland scored 71 points, and Duke scored 81 and 72 points (with the Cavaliers going 2-2 in those games thanks to the two losses to Duke). So, first of all, they were wrong – they are 32-1. But second of all, it was still stupid – it is almost like saying they are 34-0 when they score more points than the other team.<\/p>\n
It is crazy impressive that the Cavaliers have played 37 games and held 33 to under 70. But the record thing is a little silly – they win games because they play great defense – got it.<\/p>\n
That’s OK, I am still marvelling how Texas Tech scored 4 points in 7 1\/2 minutes and managed to BUILD THEIR LEAD!!!<\/p>\n
As I type this, there is an offensive flurry going on as the Red Raiders are now up 39-33. So in the first 7 1\/2 minutes of the first half, they scored 28 points combined – compared to the 7 to end the first half. And then as I typed that, Matt Mooney just hit two straight three-pointers to extend the lead to 12. Crazy offense – thankfully there was a time-out called so I could catch up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the announcers were talking over halftime, one of the announcers marveled that Virginia is 34-3 when holding teams to under 70 points – and I immediately said, that is a stupid stat. That had to be close to their overall record. So, I looked it up. And Virginia’s record is 34-3. So, they totally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}