5-2 through the front half of Ivy League play, this is a fine stoppage point to look at half-by-half offensive and defensive numbers for these seven conference contests.
A spreadsheet plus some thoughts on this data can be found after the jump.
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vs. Penn | 98.1 | 108.7 | 103.5 | 69.6 | 99.1 | 84.4 |
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vs. Cornell | 107.8 | 126.5 | 117.1 | 92.4 | 89.5 | 90.9 |
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vs. Columbia | 131.5 | 117.0 | 123.8 | 128.0 | 100.3 | 113.5 |
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vs. Brown | 103.9 | 121.1 | 112.6 | 60.9 | 103.3 | 82.2 |
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vs. Yale | 112.8 | 128.3 | 121.7 | 147.5 | 115.2 | 129.2 |
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at Dartmouth | 176.4 | 94.9 | 129.2 | 117.6 | 82.7 | 97.3 |
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at Harvard | 107.2 | 88.8 | 97.0 | 122.6 | 113.3 | 117.5 |
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119.7 | 112.2 | 115.0 | 105.5 | 100.5 | 102.1 |
The national average for efficiency is 100.2.
No surprise, the second half at Harvard was the poorest Ivy offensive effort as Princeton scored 0.89 points-per-possession.
It was surprising however to see the Tigers' first half against Penn was the worst opening 20 minutes but holding the Quakers to .70 points/possession more than made up for that number.
Scoring 1.76 points in the opening half at Dartmouth is what happens when you only have one turnover and get points almost every time down the floor.
You can see here the offensive numbers were good enough to win against Yale but the Tiger defense played their worst first half out of the seven as well as their worst second half out of the seven.
To give some conference-only context, the Tigers' offense is best in the league (115.4 OE trumping Harvard's 111.6 according to Ken Pomeroy's similar data) while the Crimson's EFG% (59.5) is slightly higher than Princeton's (58.7).
The Crimson are fourth nationally in three point percentage while the Tigers are ninth.
On defense Princeton are fifth in league (102.4) with Penn on top (96.9%). Their defensive EFG% is second (49.3%) but the numbers are hindered by forcing a league-worst turnovers on 19.1 of all opponent possessions.
