How Far Is Marquette From Being A Passable Rebounding Team?

If you watched more than, eh, let’s say three Marquette men’s basketball games this past season, you probably noticed something about Shaka Smart’s first team. They were, in a word, bad at rebounding the basketball, and not only that, they were bad at rebounding the basketball on both ends of the floor.

Sometimes you’ll see a very good defensive team be very bad at gathering up their own misses, but they’re at least passable on the defensive end. This can probably just be attributed to the coaching staff saying “look, we trust our shooters, but we need to defend, forget getting second chances, we need stops.” If that’s what was happening, then that’s just a style choice.

Looking only at…