Monday, January 24, 2011

BE Game of the Night: Notre Dame 56, Pitt 51

Just a quicky for the BE Game of the Night post today.

Image take from here.
Notre Dame walked into the Peterson Event Center tonight, and walked out even more slowly with a five point win over the Pitt Panthers.

This was a big win for the Irish - Pomeroy pegged them as an 11-point underdog going into the game - and effectively turns the rest of their Big East season from playing for a Big East tournament bye to playing for a double-bye (i.e. a top-4 seed).

The main reason I wanted to look at the game is because of Notre Dame's "burn" offense, which shortens the game by stalling until 10 seconds or so remains on the shot clock for each offensive possession. For the game, the Irish averaged an amazing 29.2 seconds per possession, and they sucked Pitt into this pace: the Panthers averaged more than 20 seconds on their offensive possessions. The end result was a 48(!)-possession game.  Contrast this with the last Pitt game I looked at (vs. Syracuse), when Pitt punished the Orange by getting scores early in the shot clock.

To put that in perspective, the slowest-paced team in college this season, the Wisconsin Badgers, averages 58 possessions per game and hasn't played a game with less than 50 possessions all year.

The Irish were led by a hot shooting night from Carleton Scott (5/6 3FG), and forced a defensive mismatch by isolating Ben Hansbrough. Additionally, the normally sharp-shooting Pitt guards struggled from behind the arc:  Ashton Gibbs leads the team in 3FG%, but was 1-5 tonight, and Gilbert Brown - a 41% shooter himself - was 1-4.  I wonder if Notre Dame's size across the backline [Hansbrough 6'3", Abromitis 6'7", Scott 6'8"] had something to do with that?

The fancy-pants stats package is after the jump.

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Visitor                         Home      
.            Notre Dame                      PITT         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            24        24        48

Points          23        33        56          28        23        51   

Effic.         94.6     137.8     116.3       115.2      96.0     105.9  
 
eFG%           50.0      72.2      60.3        50.0      43.2      46.7  
TO%            16.5      25.1      20.8        12.3      20.9      16.6  
OR%            14.3      55.6      30.4        37.5      53.8      44.8  
FTA/FGA        14.3      55.6      33.3        34.8      36.4      35.6  
 
Assist Rate    75.0      45.5      57.9        77.8      22.2      50.0  
Block Rate     15.4      11.8      13.3        18.2      10.0      14.3  
Steal Rate      0.0       8.4       4.2         8.2       8.4       8.3  
 
2FG%           27.3      70.0      47.6        30.8      47.1      40.0  
3FG%           50.0      50.0      50.0        50.0      20.0      40.0  
FT%            66.7      70.0      69.2        62.5      50.0      56.2


INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Notre Dame            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Nash, Tyrone           36   17.7   98.7    6.3      36    90.9    6.5      +0.1  
Abromaitis, Tim        35    3.6  211.6    2.7      36   128.7    9.3      -2.8  
Scott, Carleton        43   16.6  173.6   12.4      42    97.5    8.2      +4.8  
Martin, Scott          44   23.1   74.7    7.6      42   105.7    8.9      -2.2  
Hansbrough, Ben        47   40.9  118.9   22.9      46    97.0    8.9      +9.1  
Atkins, Eric           26    2.6  220.8    1.5      28    97.0    5.4      -1.6  
Cooley, Jack            9    5.1  200.0    0.9      10    87.1    1.7      -0.2  
TOTALS                 48         119.7   54.2      48   102.0   49.0      +6.8  

PITT                  Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
BROWN, Gilbert         41   22.3  143.1   13.1      41   118.2    9.7      +2.8  
ROBINSON, Nasir        37   16.1  112.4    6.7      35   105.6    7.4      -0.1  
McGHEE, Gary           28   18.7  111.2    5.8      28   121.8    6.8      -0.8  
GIBBS, Ashton          38   24.5   78.5    7.3      38   129.7    9.9      -3.7  
WANAMAKER, Brad        43   28.7   83.6   10.3      43    93.4    8.0      +0.5  
WOODALL, Travon        26   10.9   77.8    2.2      26    88.7    4.6      -1.4  
TAYLOR, Dante          17    9.9   81.3    1.4      17   120.4    4.1      -1.7  
PATTERSON, Lamar        7    0.0    -      0.0       8   137.5    2.2      -2.2  
ZANNA, Talib            3    0.0    -      0.0       4   175.0    1.4      -1.4  
TOTALS                 48         100.6   46.8      48   112.7   54.1      -6.6


HD BOX SCORE

Notre Dame vs PITT
1-24-11 7:00 PM at Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Final score: Notre Dame 56, PITT 51

Notre Dame              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Nash, Tyrone           29:17  + 9   5/44  1- 2  0- 0  3- 5  2/29  2/14  0/36  2/36  1/21  1/17  3/22   2
Abromaitis, Tim        29:15  - 9   2/36  0- 0  0- 0  2- 2  0/27  0/12  0/36  0/35  1/22  1/17  1/20   1
Scott, Carleton        34:20  + 7  16/51  0- 5  5- 6  1- 1 11/36  0/13  0/42  0/43  1/24  3/21  6/24   2
Martin, Scott          36:43  + 9  10/53  0- 4  3- 6  1- 2 10/36  1/15  0/42  1/44  0/29  0/21  1/29   2
Hansbrough, Ben        38:56  + 7  19/56  7- 8  1- 6  2- 3 14/38  7/11  1/46  5/47  0/28  1/22  3/29   3
Atkins, Eric           21:57  + 0   2/28  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/22  1/ 8  1/28  0/26  0/17  0/14  0/18   0
Cooley, Jack           09:32  + 2   2/12  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 7  0/ 3  0/10  0/ 9  1/ 9  0/ 3  1/ 8   2
TOTALS                 40:00       56    10-21  9-18  9-13    39 11/19  2/48 10/48  4/30  7/23 16/29  12
.                                        0.476 0.500 0.692       0.579 0.042 0.208 0.133 0.304 0.552    

PITT                    Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
BROWN, Gilbert         35:06  - 6  13/41  2- 3  1- 4  6- 6  7/38  1/12  0/41  0/41  2/18  4/26  2/19   2
ROBINSON, Nasir        30:04  - 2   4/38  1- 4  0- 0  2- 4  4/37  1/13  1/35  1/37  0/14  4/26  1/16   3
McGHEE, Gary           25:30  - 4   5/29  2- 4  0- 0  1- 4  4/29  0/10  0/28  0/28  1/13  3/19  4/13   1
GIBBS, Ashton          33:21  -10   9/38  3- 8  1- 5  0- 0 13/39  2/10  0/38  2/38  0/17  1/27  0/16   2
WANAMAKER, Brad        35:38  - 3  12/45  3- 8  2- 4  0- 0 12/39  3/11  2/43  3/43  0/19  0/26  5/22   1
WOODALL, Travon        18:55  + 4   6/29  0- 0  2- 2  0- 0  2/20  2/ 7  1/26  2/26  0/12  0/12  1/15   2
TAYLOR, Dante          13:25  + 1   2/22  1- 3  0- 0  0- 2  3/13  0/ 5  0/17  0/17  0/ 7  0/ 8  2/ 8   1
PATTERSON, Lamar       05:22  - 1   0/10  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 7  0/ 3  0/ 8  0/ 7  0/ 3  0/ 4  0/ 4   2
ZANNA, Talib           02:39  - 4   0/ 3  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 3  0/ 1  0/ 4  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 2  1/ 2   0
TOTALS                 40:00       51    12-30  6-15  9-16    45  9/18  4/48  8/48  3/21 13/29 16/23  14
.                                        0.400 0.400 0.562       0.500 0.083 0.167 0.143 0.448 0.696    

Efficiency: Notre Dame 1.167, PITT 1.062
eFG%: Notre Dame 0.603, PITT 0.467
Substitutions: Notre Dame 22, PITT 24

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Notre Dame 0-1, PITT 1-1
Layups/Tips: Notre Dame 7-10, PITT 6-13
Jumpers: Notre Dame 3-10, PITT 5-16

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Notre Dame 0 (0.0), PITT 0 (0.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Notre Dame 7 (350.0), PITT 4 (100.0)
Seconds per poss: Notre Dame 29.2, PITT 20.8



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