Hokie Hoops Statistical Notes: Volume End

Well, with the performance in Greensboro, it is likely that the inaugural season of CMYBall is at an end. It had it's highs and lows, but through 32 games, the herculean effort to field a team, much less win a few games seemed out of reach. Ten months ago, we had barely enough players to form a roster. Seven months ago, Jon Kabongo was ruled out with a knee injury. A not unsubstantial percentage of our current roster should be readying themselves for senior proms and SAT results.

Yet we made it to .500.

Scoring

75.36% of scoring production was from Freshmen. Find me another school in the nation with that stat line. Add into that, we're guaranteed to be losing 0.18% to graduation. Again, find me another school with that figure.

Rebounding
Tyrece MF Radford managed an even 200 rebounds on the year. Nolley chimed in with 186, Horne with 133, and Bede with 118. Rounding out the top 5 was Ojiako with 85. Dude will be solid. If he can have the endurance for Horne's minutes, he could see 300 in a season.

Assists
177-53. That is Wabissa Bede's ATO on the season, good for a ratio of 3.34 to 1. That's good for 2nd nationally. The 53 turnovers are the fewest among the top 100 assist producers in the country.

Experience/Minutes
The word that best describes this Hokie team unlike years previous is "healthy." Discounting Kabongo's season ending injury three months before tip-off, the 2019-20 Hokies missed a total of 2 games - Cattoor early in the year, against Chattanooga with an ankle injury and Ojiako against Syracuse. So of ten scholarship players who were likely to have seen major playing time this year (320 games) injuries cost 34 appearances.

Nolley led all Hokies with 967 minutes, the only player to top 30 mpg. Bede (951), Horne (901), Radford (842), Alleyne (833, and Cattoor (627) all finished with greater than 20 minutes per game. Cone (590), Wilkins (460), and Ojiako (322) all finished with greater than 10 mpg.

65.8% of minutes were played by Freshmen, and .72% played by Seniors.

All told the Hokies accrued 6550 minutes in 32 games, averaging out to 32.75 total games played for the team. We asked a lot of our freshmen and we got what they could give.

Looking Ahead
Two highly rated guards will be adding to the roster, in Joe Bamisile and Darius Maddox. Add in Kabongo (21 games played, 103 minutes) and Aluma (68 games played, 1370 minutes) and the Hokies should be one of the deepest, most experienced teams in the league, with almost 8000 returning minutes.