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Furman hasn’t been this good since it was regularly making NCAA Tournaments in the 1970s.
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Furman has the 16th-highest three-point rate in the country with 47 percent of its shots coming beyond the arc. The Paladins not only shoot a lot of threes, but make a lot of them, as they are making 36.2 percent for a top-90 accuracy in the country.

For reference, the average game Furman plays sees the Paladins make 10 three-pointers and shoot 28 of them. WSU hasn’t played against a team like that since Davidson at the Charleston Classic.
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But Furman is actually a better defensive team. The Paladins have the No. 42-best defense in the KenPom rankings and average more than eight steals per game, which comes out to a 12.2 steal percentage for the eighth-best mark in the country. Furman also owns a top-50 block percentage and defends the three-point line well with opponents shooting a tick above 31 percent ... Furman’s No. 42 defense is not quite on par with [American Conference foes] Houston (No. 13) or Cincinnati (No. 28), but it would be comfortably the third-best defense in the American.

Furman rarely uses its bench players. That makes the Paladins susceptible to foul trouble and WSU, which has a rotation of 10 players, could use its depth to its advantage.

The Jackal wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:59 am

Sounds like a worthy opponent and an exciting guest to host at Timmons.

Fessor wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:45 am

One last thing, they don't have a football team .....

FUBeAR wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:52 am

Fessor wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:45 am

One last thing, they don't have a football team .....

...but they WISH they did...

Fessor wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:38 am

Gregg Marshall is ostensibly one of the best coaches in America. He comes from the John Kresse coaching tree. (Kresse is by far the finest coach I've ever seen.) It's been discussed on this board before if Marshall was ever on Furman's radar - not that he would have accepted the job - and if not, why not, when he left being an assistant at CofC to become head coach at Winthrop. Others are closer to this topic than I am. Of note, Marshall is the 12th highest compensated coach in NCAA basketball, making approx. $3.5 million per year. WSU moved to lock him up when his name was associated with ACC jobs after his initial success at WSU. There was a great article (SI? ESPN?) on him during their undefeated season five or so years ago.

They've had a disappointing season by their standards, but WSU is a big-time program and they play in a strong conference. They have regularly put players in the NBA in recent years (Ron Baker, Landry Shamet, Fred VanVleet; VanVleet is excellent) and they have a long list of guys playing professionally overseas.

Here are highlights from their upset of Temple in their conference tournament. Like all big time programs, they appear to have size at all positions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoStF7A ... ure=onebox