Next Year's Big East: Who Loses Whom

[Phantom Warrior]

1. Minutes Per Game:

MU loses more mpg than any other BE team except Creighton - 103.3 mpg among DG, JW, JT, and CO.

Creighton - 115.2 mpg in McDermott, Wagge, Marigat, and Gibbs.

St. John's - 101.6 mpg (if Obekpa doesn't return) - Sampson, Sanchez, Pointer, Achiuwa, Obekpa.

Seton Hall - 93.2 mpg in Edward, Teague, Oliver, Geramipoor.

DePaul - 86.0 mpg in Melvin, Young, and Marcius.

GTown - 82.3 mpg in Starks, Lubick, and Bowen.

Providence - 70.5 mpg in Cotton and Batts.

Xavier - 53.1 mpg in Philmore and Martin. (total rises to 88.4 mpg if Christon does not return).

Nova - 43.8 mpg in Bell and Chennaut.

Butler - 21.5 mpg in Fromm (but Jones returns from redshirt).

2. Points Per Game:

Creighton - 51.3 ppg

Seton Hall - 38.3 ppg

MU - 36.9 ppg

DePaul - 36.8 ppg

Providence - 34.1 ppg

St. John's - 31.4 ppg

GTown - 28.4 ppg

Xavier - 21.0 ppg

Nova - 17.1 ppg (34.1 ppg if Christon does not return)

Butler - 5.5 ppg

3. Rebounds Per Game:

St. John's - 21.8 rpg (17.0 rpg if Obekpa returns)

MU - 18.7 rpg

Creighton - 17.0 rpg

Seton Hall - 16.8 rpg

DePaul - 15.2 rpg

GTown - 13.2 rpg

Providence - 10.9 rpg

Xavier - 10.2 rpg

Nova - 7.5 rpg

Butler - 3.4 rpg

I only included players who played decent mpg. I did not include Smith of GTown since he did not play at all second semester, and I have no idea what his status is/might be next year. The other big question marks are Christon and Obekpa. (I will be surprised if Christon chooses to remain in the draft and even more surprised if Lavin does not take Obekpa back.)

Bottom line, though, in terms of mpg that have to be replaced, MU ranks #2, and in terms of points we rank third, and in terms of rebounds we rank either first or second.

[mutpm]

You're a little off on Creighton. They are losing 4 players (McDermott, Manigat, Gibbs, and Wragge). They account for just over 110 minutes a game and 50.1 points per game. They are losing 55% of their minutes and almost 64% of their scoring.

[Phantom Warrior]

Yup. I missed him somehow. Going back to original post to correct.

[LittleMurs]

1. Minutes Per Game:

Bottom line, though, in terms of mpg that have to be replaced, MU ranks #2, and in terms of points we rank third, and in terms of rebounds we rank either first or second.

I'm not sure that this is as bad a thing as it sound like it is. Sadly, in some ways I think that this is actually good news. Let's see what happens now that the deck is cleared for talent that was languishing on the bench last year. Inside, we will be awfully shallow, though.