That the Wildcats still managed to run Michigan — a team riding a 14 - game winning streak and boasting the No. 3 defense in the country, according to Ken Pomeroy's
adjusted efficiency metric — off the floor is a testament to the power of the offense fueled all season long by its junior point guard's efficient scoring and deft playmaking.
Not exact matches
This
metric parses each team's
efficiency and explosiveness and
adjusts it for strength of opposition, and over the years, it's proved to be a very strong predictor against the Vegas spread.
THE BEST
metric for evaluating defense is points allowed per possession (aka
efficiency),
adjusted for schedule strength — but this statistic has only been tracked on the sport's analytics authority, kenpom.com, since 2001 — 02.