Basketball: A little more pregame

• Check out the recap and box score of VMI's loss to Ohio state last night. As you can see, VMI shot the ball horribly (30.2%), but the Buckeye's are ridiculously good, so there's a bit of an excuse for that. Still, the way Princeton ran it's offense last night (which was well--57 points is nothing to laugh at for the Tigers), you have to think they could have mounted a better effort, even against the 4th-ranked team in the country.
• For a recap of Princeton's loss to Loyola last night, just check out all the earlier postings in this blog. The big stat I missed last night at the end of the game was the rebounding margin. Princeton was outrebounded 33-14 by the Ramblers, allowing 11 offensive rebounds. That was obviously a part of the porous interior defense to which I attributed the loss (30 of Loyola's 68 points were in the paint).