They play a slow down style, averaging 60 possessions in BE play. For perspective ND has 59 a game and is the slowest in the BE. The next slowest is 63 possessions, so thats a massive difference (league av is 65, and UC's av is 65) so transition points are also hard to come by. They also defend pretty well as a team and are solid on the glass. They just held cuse to <35%FG, and a similarly poor eFG%. Their ppp #s are legit too, giving up only 0.97 ppp in BE play, which is really solid and around 5th in the league, but by no means are they the best defensive team in the BE which a lot of announcers allude to bc they hold teams to the lowest ppg average.
Their biggest problem is they struggle to score the basketball, but its not near as bad as what they showed against the Cuse last night where they went ~11 minutes w/o scoring. They're just slightly below league av scoring 1.01 ppp (av is 1.02).
Players wise, Gilchrist is the most talented, but they're just a really balanced team without any true stars. Only one guy averages double figures for them, (although their ppg #s will always be lower bc they get fewer possessions per game than everyone else) and they have a bunch of guys that crash the glass hard. Theyre also a lot better at home than they have been on the road this year, despite not getting to play in their regular arena.
