Well that got fun, didn’t it?
We’ll lead with the obvious. Eastern Illinois is terrible. There are 358 Division 1 basketball teams, and according to KenPom.com there are only eight programs which are worse. Understanding they’re awful offensively, and also very bad on defense, should provide us the context to talk about how this game went.
I hope you listened to the podcast, if not I recommend you listen because some of the things we talked about kind of happened in this game. I don’t know what is going to happen this year, but the early metrics aren’t friendly for Cuonzo Martin and his basketball team.