As basketball fans, we see statistics all the time. “Green Bay scored the fourth most points per game in the country last season,” you might hear. Or, “Marshall was one of the top 25 teams in the nation in defensive rebounds per game.” Surely then, Green Bay has an elite offense, and Marshall is a great defensive rebounding team, right? Not so fast. Traditional, per game statistics help to paint a picture of a team’s performance but they have one fatal flaw: they lack context. Green Bay’s offense did score lots of points last year, but this was not because its offense was great; it scored lots of points because it played a Horizon league schedule and played at an exceedingly fast pace.
A Four Factors Review of the 2019-20 Illinois Basketball Season
