James Madison vs Wisconsin Matchup Analysis: Upset Alert?

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00:03 - The thing that I wanna look at really quick is,

00:06 is this, this 12-5 matchup between,

00:09 between JMU and Wisconsin.

00:10 And to me, when I talked to you guys before

00:13 about the fact that I'm a defensive guy,

00:14 I like to get stops, right?

00:16 When you go look at synergy,

00:17 you start looking at the comparisons.

00:19 You have a team of James Madison,

00:20 who was a 35th in points for possession

00:23 versus the 285th points possession defense in Wisconsin.

00:28 Look at effective field goal percentage,

00:30 40th for JMU, 301st for Wisconsin.

00:35 If you look at turnover rate, 12.3%, 47th.

00:39 You know, they make their free throws,

00:41 they score at 46.2% of the time,

00:45 they're scoring percentage, that's 25th.

00:48 Wisconsin, 290th.

00:50 So to me, that is the upset that I'm looking at.

00:53 And if you don't wanna take an upset with that,

00:55 maybe just look at maybe the JMU team total over,

00:59 because their metrics of how they score

01:01 versus how Wisconsin doesn't get stops,

01:03 maybe another way you could play it.

01:04 - Wisconsin was a team that was 16-4 at the end of January.

01:09 They went two and six in February,

01:11 split their final four regular season games

01:14 in the month of March, won their first few

01:17 at the Big Ten Tournament, of course,

01:19 in Minneapolis this week, coming up just a little bit short

01:22 against Illinois in that title game.

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