The plus/minus statistic is one of the most controversial in basketball. However, with a good sample size, it can show how much a player impacts the game by showing if the team is in a scoring surplus or deficit when they are on the court.
Four games in, the Kentucky Wildcats’ two leading players in plus/minus are Rob Dillingham (+84) and Reed Sheppard (+85). They have done so by playing the fifth and sixth-most minutes on the team.
Those numbers are impressive, but diving into the analytics shows just how impressive both have been, even on a national scale.