Article: How Do Florida and Maryland Compare In Advanced Metrics?

Bench minutes were included, why not bench points?

 

Bench minutes really surprised me. I wasn’t expecting ours to be that low and so close to theirs.

 

Based on these metrics, we win.

 

Some added nuance:

Since SEC play began, 29% bench minutes
Since Urban started playing SEC minutes, 30.1% (Texas, 5th SEC game)
Since Micah started playing SEC minutes, 31.1% (South Carolina, 12th SEC game)
Last 5 games, 32.6% (SEC Tournament + 1st/2nd round NCAA)

Maryland:

Since Big 10 play began (only using B10, B10 Tourney, NCAA Tourney): 19.9%
Last 10 games, 18.7%
Last 5 games, 22.2% - a little misleading. They destroyed Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament opener leading by over 35 points in the 2nd half; they had a pretty comfortable win against GCU in the NCAA opener.

Take away those two outliers (because if they destroy us, none of this really matters anyway), and they're sitting at roughly 15% in 10 out of their last 12 games. Only gone over 20% in 4 of their last 16 total games (including the GCU and Illinois games referenced above).

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

The disparity in offensive rebounds stuck out to me. 2nd chance points may be the difference.

And hope it turns in to a track meet. We're good at it.

 

Hard to know what to make of these. I think of Maryland as a faster-paced Tennessee. Long, athletic, physical in the post. Really good guards who can create and score. They defend well (though not quite as well as Tennessee). They are actually very similar to us in terms of talent, balance, and physicality. Absolutely need to own the offensive glass and get sufficient bench production. I don't see us running away with this one by any stretch. Should be a close, physical game, maybe even something like that Florida-UT game in the SEC final.

 

So you're expecting us to win by 9?

 

I make no predictions, haha. But I expect a physical, competitive game like that one.