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2) We did out rebound UCLA, but as far as O boards not so much--they had 15 to our 14.  Those 15 O boards and UCLA's advantage in turnovers (7 to 16) allowed them to take a whopping 11 more shots than we did--69 to 58.  That  did go a long way toward neutralizing our 40% to 29% shooting advantage.  So Tara needs her team to work on boxing out and making less risky passes.  Do that and this would have been a blowout game.

On the UCLA side, there were 52 contestable rebounds, of which UCLA got 15 (28.8% of contestable rebounds).

On our side, there were only 36 contestable rebounds, of which we got 14 (38.9% of contestable rebounds).



I wouldn't worry too much about UCLA having numerically more offensive rebounds; they had a lot more chances to get an offensive rebound.  I don't have the women's basketball numbers, but over the course of a whole season, 29% offensive rebounding percentage would have ranked 80th out of 320 MBB teams, so we could stand to improve our defensive rebounding.  An offensive rebounding percentage of 39% is outstanding, and would have been in the top-5 among MBB teams last year.


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Fran's dunk (#2 of the year!)

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1341140231798571009?s=20[/tweet]

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2) We did out rebound UCLA, but as far as O boards not so much--they had 15 to our 14.  Those 15 O boards and UCLA's advantage in turnovers (7 to 16) allowed them to take a whopping 11 more shots than we did--69 to 58.  That  did go a long way toward neutralizing our 40% to 29% shooting advantage.  So Tara needs her team to work on boxing out and making less risky passes.  Do that and this would have been a blowout game.

On the UCLA side, there were 52 contestable rebounds, of which UCLA got 15 (28.8% of contestable rebounds).

On our side, there were only 36 contestable rebounds, of which we got 14 (38.9% of contestable rebounds).



I wouldn't worry too much about UCLA having numerically more offensive rebounds; they had a lot more chances to get an offensive rebound.  I don't have the women's basketball numbers, but over the course of a whole season, 29% offensive rebounding percentage would have ranked 80th out of 320 MBB teams, so we could stand to improve our defensive rebounding.  An offensive rebounding percentage of 39% is outstanding, and would have been in the top-5 among MBB teams last year.


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Fran's dunk (#2 of the year!)

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1341140231798571009?s=20[/tweet]

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