Before last season, the worry going in was that the defense was going to be an Achilles heel. How could a team with so many scoring options NOT score?
After last season, the worry has to be how is this offense going to work?
The offense’s struggles undid the work of a defense that had excellent stretches of keeping foes off the scoreboard — in a conference that had the third highest per-possession scoring average in the nation.
Per KenPom, the Red Storm dipped from an adjusted efficiency of 109 points per 100 possessions (90th in the nation) to 106.