{"id":1197,"date":"2016-11-14T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T18:44:39","slug":"a-history-of-block-shutouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/a-history-of-block-shutouts\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of block shutouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, when one team blocks a lot of shots and its opponent doesn’t block any, it leads to a large\u00a0victory. The blocks themselves may only be a small contribution to the final margin.\u00a0But the block dominance\u00a0suggests that one team has a significant advantage in size and athleticism, and that advantage normally manifests itself in a lopsided basketball game\u00a0after 40 minutes of competition.<\/p>\n

But not all games follow this script. Washington is a team that will block a lot of shots this season and may not be terribly good and Yale is a team that won’t block many shots this season and is not all that bad. The two bucked the trend on Sunday<\/a> as indicated by the following\u00a0compendium of the\u00a035 games over the past 16 seasons where one team blocked at least 13 shots while the other blocked none. (Before you ask: The list\u00a0doesn’t work as well using 12 blocks.)<\/p>\n

Date       Team1             Blocks1 Team2            Blocks2     Result   MOV<\/strong>\r\n2001-12-15 Rutgers                15 UMBC                   0     W  67-51 +16\r\n2002-01-19 Hofstra                13 William & Mary         0     W  68-59 + 9\r\n2002-11-17 Notre Dame             19 Belmont                0     W  76-48 +28\r\n2002-12-28 Syracuse               13 Albany                 0     W 109-79 +30\r\n2003-02-23 Binghamton             13 Northeastern           0     W  66-54 +12\r\n2003-02-27 Troy St.               13 Stetson                0     W 117-70 +47\r\n2005-02-19 Saint Joseph's         14 St. Bonaventure        0     W  65-47 +18\r\n2005-12-21 Syracuse               16 Illinois Chicago       0     W  75-61 +14\r\n2006-12-09 Kansas                 15 Toledo                 0     W  68-58 +10\r\n2007-01-10 Massachusetts          13 George Washington      0     W  91-84 + 7\r\n2006-11-21 George Washington      14 Kennesaw St.           0     W  69-52 +17\r\n2007-11-17 UNC Asheville          16 Campbell               0     W  83-71 +12\r\n2007-11-17 Massachusetts          13 Green Bay              0     W  93-78 +15\r\n2008-11-15 Clemson                14 TCU                    0     W  70-58 +12\r\n2009-12-05 Syracuse               14 Maine                  0     W 101-55 +46\r\n2009-12-29 Furman                 14 Utah Valley            0     W  77-69 + 8\r\n2009-12-30 Saint Mary's           17 Howard                 0     W  94-46 +48\r\n2009-11-11 Syracuse               14 Robert Morris          0     W 100-60 +40\r\n2009-11-13 Minnesota              15 Tennessee Tech         0     W  87-50 +37\r\n2009-12-16 Mississippi St.        13 Wright St.             0     W  80-69 +11\r\n2010-03-03 Kentucky               14 Georgia                0     W  80-68 +12\r\n2011-03-05 UC Santa Barbara       14 Cal Poly               0     W  49-43 + 6\r\n2011-11-11 Connecticut            13 Columbia               0     W  70-57 +13\r\n2011-11-11 Illinois               13 Loyola Chicago         0     W  67-49 +18\r\n2011-11-20 Florida St.            14 South Alabama          0     W  80-39 +41\r\n2011-12-28 Syracuse               15 Seton Hall             0     W  75-49 +26\r\n2012-01-14 Green Bay              14 Wright St.             0     W  57-56 + 1\r\n2012-02-25 UC Irvine              13 Cal St. Northridge     0     W  94-85 + 9\r\n2012-12-22 UNLV                   13 Canisius               0     W  89-74 +15\r\n2013-11-19 St. John's             13 Bucknell               0     W  67-63 + 4\r\n2013-11-27 New Mexico St.         14 Prairie View A&M       0     W  91-60 +31\r\n2013-12-30 Wagner                 15 Monmouth               0     W  59-52 + 7\r\n2014-11-19 St. John's             14 LIU Brooklyn           0     W  66-53 +13\r\n2016-11-11 Oregon                 13 Army                   0     W  91-77 +14\r\n2016-11-13 Washington             15 Yale                   0     L  90-98 - 8\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Normally, when one team blocks a lot of shots and its opponent doesn’t block any, it leads to a large\u00a0victory. The blocks themselves may only be a small contribution to the final margin.\u00a0But the block dominance\u00a0suggests that one team has a significant advantage in size and athleticism, and that advantage normally manifests itself in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}