San Diego State

[WTSooner]

A little info about them that I've found so far. Ken Pom's site is down, but I'll post some stuff from there when it's back up.

Looks like they are a very guard-driven team on offense. They have a 6'5 junior guard named Franklin that leads them in scoring (16.7), rebounding (9.5), assists and steals. He also shoots it at a pretty low percentage, and turns it over 3.5 times a game.

Next two highest scorers are the other two guards. They take less shots, but shoot it more efficiently than Franklin. The two bigs are listed at 6'7 and 6'8, both 225 pounds. So they aren't big. Not sure how athletic they are, but you'd expect them to be somewhat athletic. Neither does much on offense, and neither has particularly impressive rebounding stats.

The four players that took the most shot attempts are the 3 starting guards, and a 4th guard off the bench. So the inside guys don't appear to play much of a role on offense. Should keep our bigs out of foul trouble.

Their guards all appear to be in the 6'3 to 6'5 range. Wouldn't be surprised to see Hield/Cam on Franklin if he becomes a problem. If we can man up the other two guards, and force Franklin to take bad shots or turn the ball over (which he appears to do), we should be able to contain their offense. It appears that the Franklin dude gets to the line a lot as well. Probably has a game similar to Smart, maybe, from looking at the stats. He definitely appears to dominate the ball.

 

[j2d2]

Sooner Sports reports that M'Baye has played against them 3 times and Kruger coached against them because they were in the same conference. This gives me very high expectations. Kruger is too good a coach not to have a great game plan for them, but, as always, the players have to execute.

 

[mict085]

All things considered, I think this is about as good a draw as we could've hoped for. We aren't good enough to have any easy games but the 1st 2 rounds are winnable games for OU. I'm not saying we'll win but we certainly can if we play as well as we're capable. I like the draw and hope the team plays their best ball next weekend.

 

[SoonerinNC]

Pleger and M'Baye have to show up. They have been missing in action the last two games.

 

[Krugerfan52]

I agree this is the best draw we could have hoped for. San Diego state seems to have gotten in on their RPI and seems to me that if there was an RPI gimic, they are the team that pulled it. They have a handful of "quality" wins and no bad losses, according to RPI. But when you look at it, other than UCLA there's not a lot of tradionally good teams, or power teams on their schedule, and yet their record is just your average 20-10.

If they were 28-5 with their best wins over Boise State, Colorado State, etc I could lump them in with those dominant Boise State football teams. But they still lost 10 games!

Throw in the fact that they cant score and their best player shoots 40% and 27% from 3pt range, and I think SDS is one of the weakest teams in the NCAA bracket.

If we play well we should beat them 75-60. If not, we could still win ugly 62-60.