{"id":736,"date":"2005-12-21T02:53:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T08:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/in-your-face-disgraceland\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T08:53:58","slug":"in-your-face-disgraceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/in-your-face-disgraceland\/","title":{"rendered":"In Your Face Dis&#45;Graceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>                         <b>  FG    3pt  FT   Reb\n                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts<\/b>\nRodney Carney          30 14-25  5-10 4-4  6-10  2 0 4  2  0   37\n<b>Result: Win.<\/b> Memphis 76, Louisiana Tech 58.<\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;s occurred to me that I&#8217;ve been a little too focused on the overrated so far this season (Houston, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/recap?gid=200512200401\">hello!<\/a>). So let&#8217;s promote a team that deserves a little more attention. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no fun to be the last person on your block to know something. By this time next week, everyone, including your grandma, will be talking about how great Memphis is. They&#8217;ll be coming off a win over my favorite overrated team, Gonzaga. So talk the Tigers up before the weekend. Seriously, if Gonzaga pulls off a win in next Tuesday&#8217;s game, it will be the most impressive thing they&#8217;ve done since, well, maybe in the whole Mark Few era. I&#8217;d be impressed if they kept the margin within single digits.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has Memphis won all but one contest comfortably, they are doing it against a top-ten schedule. They&#8217;ve undergone a metamorphosis with about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/tigers_mens_basketball\/article\/0,1426,MCA_652_4310829,00.html\">15% increase in tempo<\/a> from last season, giving themselves more chances to show their dominance in a game. Oddly, they&#8217;re concerned about defense, but that&#8217;s consistently been their strength. They forced 26 La. Tech turnovers last night. Given how soft their conference is, Memphis is the odds-on pick to have the fewest losses entering the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>(And you should know that Carney&#8217;s six offensive boards were second-best in this game to a certain Mr. d<b>OR<\/b>sey, who vaulted from 10th to 4th in the nation in OR%.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Rodney Carney 30 14-25 5-10 4-4 6-10 2 0 4 2 0 37 Result: Win. Memphis 76, Louisiana Tech 58. It&#8217;s occurred to me that I&#8217;ve been a little too focused on the overrated so far this season (Houston, hello!). [&hellip;]<\/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\/736"}],"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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}