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Originally Posted by waterhead
We did let them get to the FT line too much but the refs had a helping hand in that and probably added another 4-6 points or more on poor calls. We also turned them over much more than they are used to. We did get a couple of calls to go our way but I feel like Tulane got 5-6 calls in the other direction.
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There were a lot of calls where our hands were straight up and everything was clean up top, but we were hip checking or jumping into them. We had 20 fouls called on us which isn't a ton for a high pace game (they had 23), but most of them were attacking the rim. We did a good job making things difficult for them around the basket, but they were able to get there a lot. In addition to the free throws, Tulane had 26 rim attempts to our 12. The difference is we converted 92% to their 58%.
Tulane's turnover rate was 14.0, just a hair above their season average of 13.5 which is 3rd in the country. Remember this game had 79 possessions, so 11 turnovers isn't a lot.