Rebounding against USC

[eastbaycat99]

In more than a half century of watching the Cats play basketball, I have never seen them control the offensive glass like they did against USC. At times, I had deja vu taking me back to tip drills in high school. Can anyone remember a more dominant game by the Cats in this regard?

 

[CappyNU]

That one sequence of like 6 offensive rebounds before getting the foul was amazing.

To answer your question, I looked through Kenpom's database. The last time we had a higher offensive rebound percentage was January 25, 1997, when we beat OSU 78-47 (which remains our largest margin of victory over OSU ever), and rebounded 17 of our 31 missed shots, led by 6 from Carvell Ammons.

Funny enough, the previous time before that game was during the same season, November 26, 1996 against Central Michigan.

 

[jensberg]

In more than a half century of watching the Cats play basketball, I have never seen them control the offensive glass like they did against USC. At times, I had deja vu taking me back to tip drills in high school. Can anyone remember a more dominant game by the Cats in this regard?

Though it's not the only explanation that's all this guy USC had playing on the court was 6'7 we had two 7-footers

 

[Cataria]

In more than a half century of watching the Cats play basketball, I have never seen them control the offensive glass like they did against USC. At times, I had deja vu taking me back to tip drills in high school. Can anyone remember a more dominant game by the Cats in this regard?

No, all I can remember is being surprised on the occasions that we got an OR

 

[CappyNU]

Conversely, we have had two games in the Kenpom database where we did not record a single offensive rebound. The most recent was February 12, 2005, in a 64-54 loss at Iowa, where we got zero o-boards on 25 missed shots; the other game was January 22, 2000, in a 69-45 loss at future national champion Michigan State, where we did not grab any of our 26 missed shots in the game.

We've also had two games where we got a single offensive rebound - February 15th, 2006 at Illinois in a 63-47 loss, and March 7th, 2015 at Iowa in a 69-52 loss coming just after the Tre Demps Michigan game.

 

[EagerFan]

It was definitely part of Carmody's game plan that the guys put up a three and immediately fall back to the other side of the court, so very little chance of getting offensive rebounds unless the shot goes really long.