Newsflash - bench scoring is important. OSU pulled an upset last night beating Purdue. OSU's bench scored 18 points and Purdue's bench scored 0 points. If you want to beat high level teams, you will need production, particularly offensive production from your bench because good teams will take away production from some of your starters. Not a new concept. With Falzon struggling to find shots or make shots, Gaines not being able to draw iron on three point shots, Ash being an offensive liability and Benson not getting fed the ball down low and being a defensive liability at times, we are not being enough production from the bench. That is part of the reason why someone like Brown was important to the team last season in critical games like at OSU last season and the Rutgers' home game win which was critical to making the tourney.