Those stats are meaningless. They are heavily affected by pace of play.

Jun 29, 2024
9:39:43am

BYUCLA All-American

Any team that plays a fast pace will have excellent offensive per game numbers and poor defensive per game numbers. You have to adjust for possessions and a number of other factors.

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Apparently BYU football was not the only major sport with a horrendously ranked

BYUDM93

Jun 28, 9:52pm

BYU's defense was ranked 60th in the country. That's not horrendous

nephicoug

Jun 28, 9:54pm

On what basis? Not those 10 (common) stats. There's not one better than 100.Most

BYUDM93

Jun 28, 9:57pm

Ken Pom defensive efficiency which is a pretty good go to.

Methusaleh22

Jun 28, 10:00pm

Well....losing 16 point leads is never a good thing

WJCougar

Jun 28, 9:54pm

In game defensive adjustments seemed to be a weakness for last year’s Staff

44C

Jun 29, 8:39am

Our personnel & depth didn't really allow for many defensive adjustments that weren't extremely risky.

SinkingQuffa

Jun 29, 8:51am

BYU's defense fall off a clip a month into conference play

Dr T-bone

Jun 28, 9:57pm

That stats seem off, almost like the rankings should be flipped and go lowest to

BYUheaven

Jun 28, 9:58pm

Well, that's kinda what I thought, too. So, I'm boggled.

BYUDM93

Jun 28, 10:00pm

I was saying this all year. Our defense was not tough unless you have a loose

Plantagenet

Jun 28, 10:15pm

It was the D that let us down last year for sure, despite most of CB targeting

Mitty

Jun 28, 11:38pm

Don't act like the O and D are different players like with football.

Les IsMore

Jun 29, 1:55am

I don't know if I trust those stats. They look off, and the rankings are

cougarfan84

Jun 28, 11:50pm

Pace of the game plays a role in this

CCookie

Jun 29, 9:02am

St Mary’s , Virginia , Vermont top ten Defense rank — no —they just play slow

CCookie

Jun 29, 9:11am

Those stats are meaningless. They are heavily affected by pace of play.

BYUCLA

Jun 29, 9:39am

Their defense looked great, till they hit Big 12 competition…then you know..😂

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