PLAYER PER +/- PLAYER PER RANK Tyler Rawson 21 +3.1 Troy Brown 17 #11 David Collette 17 +1.7 MiKyle McIntosh 14 #14 Justin Bibbins 17 +1.6 Elijah Brown 14 #14 Sedrick Barefield 15 +7.5 Kenny Wooten 8
Jayce Johnson 8 -1.1 Roman Sorkin 4
Kolbe Caldwell 2 +0.1 Victor Bailey Jr. 2
Parker Van Dyke -1 -3.4 MJ Cage 2
Gabe Bealer -2 -9.5 Keith Smith 0
Abu Kigab 0
Payton Pritchard -2
Hands down, Bibbins getting hot won this game. Something I haven't heard a lot about was the Utah defense frustrating the Ducks.
On several occasions I noticed Oregon players jawing with each other and telling them they did something wrong.
I hope this is the case going forward. The Utah defense is good, not great, but they play smart rotation D and there aren't many easy shots.
I heard K talk about this team. He had a heart to heart with them and said "none of you are good enough to win one on one at either end of the floor. You need each other, use them." or something to that effect
First off, Oregon had 0 steals and Utah had only 3 turnovers. Wow. That will win games. The two biggest games Utah has won this year (Missouri and Oregon) they have a combined 7 turnovers. Averaging 12.1 per game. Obviously huge. Utah was 10/27 from deep with is just barely above their average so I wouldn't say this was an amazing game from deep but Bibbins showed up when he needed to.
I barely remember Rawson playing and then the dude gets a 21 PER. 3/9 from the field, 1/5 from deep, but 9 rebounds and 7 assists with only 1 turnover. The guy is so important to this team.
Barefield +7.5 PER on his average was also huge. He's been bad on the road and vs Pac12 teams. I guess the tradeoff was Bealer disappeared.
Second point, Pritchard was -2 PER. 2/10 from the field. 0/5 from 3. 4 turnovers. FYI he's their leader. Averaging 15.6 and 4.4 assists. Avg PER is 15.9 so he was -17.9 for the game.
Utah was +20 on possessions. That's huge. They took +10 shots. +1 on offensive rebounds, and -8 on turnovers.
Crazy stat, both teams went 10/27 from deep and both teams had 5 blocks (Wooten had all 5)
14 turnovers was a season low for a Utah game. Average is 25.3 combined.
The teams combined for 18/24 from the line, both season lows for Utah game. Total of 29 fouls was the first time there were less than 30.
122 points was also a season low. 143.4 average.
This was a balanced game across the board (FG almost the same 41.3% to 41.1%, three was exactly the same, Utah was +4.2% from the line 8/11 vs 10/13.
The difference here was turnovers. Utah was -8 on turnovers and that won the game.
Next game, Oregon State. 59th in FG%, 314th in 3pt%, 168th in points, 196th in rebounding.
Former Ute commit Tres Tinkle is leading the team with 18.5 points, he also leads in rebounding at 6.9 and steals at 1.6.
Drew Eubanks is a load. 6'10" 250 pounds, he's reached double figures in 11 of 13 games. Season high 26 pts and 11 rebs vs Long Beach State last month. Had a 10/10 game vs Loyola Marymount.
The Beavers had won 6 in a row in December. A 1 pt loss to Kent State keeps them from being 10-3 and on an 8 game win streak.
Their toughest game of the season was a 5 pt loss to St. John's. They've only faced 2 top 100 teams and lost both (Wyoming)