Halfway to Brooklyn. Time to take a tempo free look at the conference teams as the A10 schedule has reached the midpoint. The efficiency margin is the offensive efficiency minus the defense. Obviously, a positive number, the more the better, is the objective. A negative ‘EM’ is quite problematic. Conference games only are taken into account. Numbers courtesy of Kenpom.com.
Record
Efficiency Margin
Dayton
9-0
21
Rhode Island
8-1
12
VCU
6-3
11
Richmond
6-3
8
Davidson
5-4
8
St. Louis
6-3
3
Duquesne
6-3
2
St .Bonaventure
6-3
1
George Washington
4-5
1
George Mason
2-7
-9
UMass
3-6
-12
LaSalle
1-8
-12
Fordham
1-8
-16
Saint Joseph’s
0-9
-16
Dayton, case closed, as the leaders. The Flyers post a conference leading and outrageous 115 offensive efficiency. Anthony Grant’s defense is third (94 DE a very good mark) just behind Rhode Island and VCU at 93.
Davidson is better than the 5-4 record indicates. On closer look the Wildcats pace the conference...
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