Albany at Boston University Preview

These Alito hearings are killing me, as is waiting for tomorrow night's game. In the meantime, I decided to check a few things out, courtesy of midmajority.com.

Here's a statistical comparison between BU and Albany:
PF:
UA 66.2
BU 58.6

PA:
UA 67.6
BU 60.5

FG%
UA 42.9
BU 43.0

3 FG%
UA 36
BU 34.9

FT%
UA 67.0
BU 64.1

RPG
UA 30.4
BU 32.1

APG
UA 12.6
BU 14.5

SPG
UA 6.3
BU 6.4

BPG
UA 2.1
BU 3.6

A/TO Ratio
UA 0.8
BU 1.0

About these statistics:
Although both teams are close in a lot of the statistics, BU's OOC schedule has been tougher than Albany's, with games aaginst Duke, Michigan, GW, Bucknell and Holy Cross. That being said, Florida, UCLA and San Diego State aren't exactly pushovers.

Re: A/TO's. Although these numbers are virtually identical, BU's starting guards, Wynn and Macon are amongst the AE leaders at 2.1 and 1.4, respectively. These numbers are even more impressive when one considers that Macon's A/TO ratio is 39 to 17 (2.29) over his last nine games. Jamar's A/TO ratio is about .8, I believe.

Based solely on BU's low scoring output and solid defensive numbers, they may play a style simialr to Cornell's, in which case maybe Monday's game may help serve as a sold prep for Albany.

Defensively, I think the matchups are as follows:
Jamar (6'1")/Brian Macon (5'8")
Lucious (6'2")/Shaun Wynn (6'2")
Lillis (6'5")/Corey Hassan (6'4")
Brent (6'8")/Kevin Gardner (6'4")
Zo (7'1")/Peterkin (6'8")
Numbers courtesy of BU's athletic site.
Physically, we match up well. As good as Hassan and Gardner have been playing, I 'll take my chances with Brian and Brent on them. I also like Levi to come off the bench to work on BU's forwards, as well.