Thursday, March 5, 2009

Kentucky's Senior Night Defense Worse Than VMI Game?

During last night's debacle, I shouted to anyone who would listen (and maybe a few people who wouldn't) that I hadn't seen this Kentucky team play defense this poorly since the VMI game that started this season on such a sad note.

But the case could be made that last night's defense was even worse than Kentucky's defense against the VMI team that shredded the Cats for 111 points. As I already noted, last night Georgia posted an offensive efficiency of 115.38, in route to scoring 90 points. Both the 111 points and the 118.72 offensive efficiency surrendered to VMI are more. But consider this:

As I noted earlier, Georgia is a historically bad offensive team. To rehash that point, their offensive efficiency of 92.13 is rock bottom in the SEC. They trail Auburn, who is 11th in offensive efficiency at 102.24, by more than Auburn trails Florida, first in offensive efficiency at 112.66.

VMI, by contrast, is a very good offensive team. Their offensive efficiency of 111.64 would be good for second in the SEC (though they do play a much weaker schedule). Against a Kentucky team that refused to guard them, they beat their season mark by 7.08. Georgia, one of the worst offensive teams I've ever seen, beat their season by a whopping 23.25. So maybe this was, remarkably, an even worse performance than the VMI game.

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