MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball coach Nick McDevitt can rattle off the numbers off the top of his head. After a summer emphasis on rebounding the basketball, his team had waned in their focus through the month of December.
There were 20 offensive rebounds the Blazers of UAB snagged in MTSU's 76-69 win on the road at the start of the month. Then, the Belmont Bruins grabbed 19 off the offensive glass in their two-point win later that week. Sandwiched in between? MTSU gave up 11 offensive rebounds to a Rhodes College team that, no knock on the Division-III Lynx, MTSU was the much more athletically gifted and taller team.