Atlantic Sun Conference Record: 13-5<\/p>\n
3\/8: W – 98-93 (OT) vs Central Arkansas @ A-Sun Championship Game<\/p>\n
3\/7: W – 90 – 83 vs Austin Peay @ A-Sun Semifinal<\/p>\n
3\/6: W – 71 – 63 vs West Georgia @ A-Sun Quarterfinal<\/p>\n
Record vs KenPom Top 100: 0-5<\/p>\n
11\/8\/25: L – 94 – 74 vs Villanova (33)<\/p>\n
11\/28\/25: L – 94 – 69 vs Virginia (13)<\/p>\n
12\/14\/25: L – 111-73 vs Wake Forest (74)<\/p>\n
12\/16\/25: L – 108 – 80 vs Arkansas (15)<\/p>\n
12\/29\/25: L – 106 – 65 vs Auburn (38)<\/p>\n
Highest Ranked KenPom Win<\/p>\n
3\/8\/: W – 98 – 93 vs Central Arkansas (153)<\/p>\n
Lowest Ranked KenPom Loss<\/p>\n
1\/24: L – 74 – 66 vs West Georgia<\/p>\n
Position#PlayerClassHeightWeightMinPtsRebAstPoint Guard24Yoav BermanSo.6\u20196\u201d214291344Shooting Guard11Chris AshbySr.6\u20192\u201d193311222Small Forward1Nasir MannSr.6\u20195\u201d203301363Power Forward22Carson SchwiegerSo.6\u20199\u201d222251031Center6Avantae ParkerJr.6\u20199\u201d218221151Position#PlayerClassHeightWeightMinPtsRebAstPoint Guard0Jordan WatfordFr.6\u20195\u201d185211234Forward9Maban JabrielSo.6\u20199\u201d20520841Center7Gus LarsonSr.6\u201910\u201d22012321This team is bigger than most AQ mid-major teams, especially in the backcourt.They can score, putting up over 90 points 12 times this season and cracking 100 3 times.They are 19th (84.9) in points scored per game in the NCAA.They struggle to stop teams from scoring, giving up over 90 points vs every KenPom top 10o team.They are 353\/365 (82.9) in points allowedAs a #3 seed in the A-Sun Tournament, they knocked off the #2 and #1 seed to get the NCAA bid.<\/p>\n
This is a weird-looking mid-major. If you stripped the names off the roster and just listed height and weight, this looks like a team from a power conference. When they\u2019ve stepped up against power conference teams, they\u2019ve been blown out, but this isn\u2019t a team that Purdue is going to be able to bully physically, at least not without some effort.<\/p>\n
The scoring is also wild. They\u2019re 18th in the nation in 3-pointers attempted (962) and 20th in makes (346). Chris Ashby averages 8.6 attempts per\/game, and Carson Schweiger averages 6.6. To put that in perspective, Fletcher Loyer leads Purdue with 6.7 attempts per\/game. These guys want to play fast and get as many perimeter shots up as possible. I\u2019m not sure there is such a thing as a bad 3-point attempt in this team\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to need to look further into this, because despite launching 3\u2019s early, often, and consistently, they are 54th in the nation in free throw attempts (766) and 49th in free throws made (566). It looks like the guards that don\u2019t shoot much (Berman and Watford) draw most of their fouls. This looks like a drive-and-kick team to me. You don\u2019t see many jump shot-reliant teams like Queens get to the line like this (see Purdue, Boilermakers).<\/p>\n
Look, Queens is a 15-seed for a reason. They haven\u2019t been competitive against the high-major teams on their schedule. I would think that, as much as they score, they could have come close at least once, but their scoring hasn\u2019t held up, and their defense has been abysmal.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll ask some interesting questions of the Boilermakers. More so than some #15 seeds, but at the end of the day, Purdue is a prohibitive favorite for a reason. Queens is going to attempt to outscore the most efficient scoring team in college basketball. I don\u2019t like their chances of playing this close, but I think it\u2019s going to be fun to watch them try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlantic Sun Conference Record: 13-5 3\/8: W – 98-93 (OT) vs Central Arkansas @ A-Sun Championship Game 3\/7:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,67660,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-165576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-purdue-mens-basketball","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}