What’s great about this team now is that it’s not just one player carrying the load. While Jenkins and Dingle carried the team against Creighton, in this game while Jenkins was limited offensively, Luis came on and thwarted every surge that Butler had with a key basket. Taylor, as has already been nentioned, was all over the court, both offensively and defensively and Ledlum with his steady board work is perhaps the most consistent. Once again, Dingle made his presence felt offensively down the stretch.
A big part of the game was Joel’s aggressive dunk in the ally oop. While his shooting has clearly been off at least he aggressively asserted himself which was a welcome sign.
The only thing, which has been mentioned often and seems to be a proverbial thorn in the teams side is its inability to recover from a full court press and allow easy baskets. To the staffs credit, we are seeing much less of that lately.