Duquesne Destroys Falcons....

Well, it wasn't a very good day on Monday for the Falcons. There isn't much to say beyond what Coach Orr said after the game, which is "we are not a very good basketball team right now."

And, the evidence certainly bears that out.

As you can see here, they blew out a 24-16 game and went 66-38 over the game's last 26 minutes for an easy win and a pretty bad way to lose on your home floor.

College Basketball

The chart below pretty much tells the story. When you turn the ball over on one-third of your possessions and then shoot only 27% when you do get a shot off, that's a scenario that is very unlikely to end in a victory.

More: that's 22% on 2-FG. We made 5.

The defensive end wasn't a lot better. Duquesne shot 60% from the field, 40% from beyond the arc, and got 46% of their available offensive rebounds.

It was among the worst statistical performances in memory and we weren't playing a Sweet 16 quality team.

NCAA Basketball

There's actually more. The game was played at Duquesne's pace, which is 71 possessions per game, meaning that BG scored 54 points in an uptempo game.

BG scored .76 points per possessions. That less than the .78 against UM. Together, those two games would have been among our five worst of all last season. The turnover % is worse than any game since we played Findlay in 2003-04.

These are not good times.  This team is really struggling, primarily to score points, but also to defend.  Not meant as criticism--its just self evident.  The good news it that there is time before the conference season comes along, and I do think we have some good players.  But, they're a long way from being a team that is going to compete in the conference.