Looking at the defensive numbers, while it wasn't great, it wasn't as terrible as I anticipated. Compared to the rest of our games in the league, this was about right in the middle. We let ISU shoot too well, but we didn't allow a ton of offensive rebounds and we forced TOs at a decent clip. But the average defensive night was magnified by terrible offense, and really missing a lot of open shots. I suppose when we have our worst eFG% game of the year, we shouldn't be surprised to lose. 36.6% is pretty terrible, especially for this team. Really amazing how bad you can look when you simply don't hit shots, and really this was the story behind this loss and the OSU loss. We managed to overcome similar offensive nights against good teams in MU and UT, but that's really the exception. If anything, it shows that when this team really is locked in defensively, they can do it, and it probably takes a bigger opponent to do that. More often than not, when you don't hit shots for most of the game, especially when you do generate some good ones (and we did), its simply hard to overcome that and still play great defense. Still terrible to do that against a bad team like ISU, even if they are a bad team with a few good players.
