It wasn’t the prettiest night of basketball, but the Zags had no problems with Pacific and now turn their attention to San Francisco:
- Pacific’s defensive system looks to take away the paint and force opposing defenses into settling for long jumpers. You can see three guys rallying to cut off the ball once it gets moving to the paint and trying to choke it off and force a kickout. It’s no surprise the Tigers entered the game with one of the highest 3PA/FGA ratios (46.2) in the country.
- If you can’t go through the defense to get into the paint (point #1), it helps to be able to go over it.