i kind of laugh, when analysts say this, it pisses me off, because that means they are not analyzing. When Syraucse gets flat out beat on the boards by 10 or more, that is just bad rebounding, but there have been plenty of games this year where they lose the rebounding edge by only a few, yet blow the team and not one person has explained, what should be fairly obvious, why those scenarios are happening. We are getting so many steals and turnovers, that the amount of opportunites to rebound are lessened. If we force 20 turnovers and a team is shooting 40%, that is essentially 12 lost rebounds.

So yeah we get out-rebounded, because we are kicking their ass before they even get to attempt a shot. I will take 20 turnovers versus winning the rebound battle by a few any day of the week!

I don’t think you did. Because if you did, you would see I specifically said “they lead the country is steal percentage and are fourth in turnover percentage, meaning that they make up for all of the extra possessions they allow by taking the ball away from their opponent. They also lead the country in block percentage, swatting away an insane 22.2% of their opponent’s field goal attempts. Its stands to reason that a good percentage of those offensive rebounds they give up never make it back to the rim.”

And this: “The Orange have never been a good defensive rebounding team, however. Its a very difficult thing to do out of a zone. Since 2003 (when Kenpom started keeping stats on the subject), the Orange have had only one season where they ranked in the top half of the country in defensive rebounding. That was in 2008, when they were 122nd. They also went to the NIT that season.”