Situational Box Score - Xavier Preview

Let me get some quick observations down about this Xavier matchup with Florida State in the second round of the NCAA tournament (Tip: 8:40 PM ET on TNT)

Xavier	Poss	% of All Poss	Rim Made	Rim Att	%	Rim Pts %	2ptJ Made	2ptJ Att	%	2ptJ Pts %	3pt Made	3pt Att	%	3pt Pts %	FT Made	FT Att	%	FT Pts %	TOs	TO %	Pts	% of Total Pts	PPP	AST	AST%	FG%	eFG%	TS%	FGM	FGA
All Possessions	2804	100.0%	554	899	61.6%	38.7%	163	382	42.7%	11.4%	267	719	37.1%	28.0%	626	796	78.6%	21.9%	426	15.2%	2861	100.0%	1.020	565	57.4%	49.2%	55.9%	57.6%	984	2000
All Initial FGA	2462	87.8%	455	734	62.0%	36.7%	148	354	41.8%	11.9%	247	664	37.2%	29.9%	532	681	78.1%	21.5%	388	15.8%	2479	86.6%	1.007	520	61.2%	48.5%	55.6%	56.8%	850	1752
Transition	877	31.3%	168	268	62.7%	35.5%	30	79	38.0%	6.3%	89	218	40.8%	28.2%	283	349	81.1%	29.9%	138	15.7%	946	33.1%	1.079	180	62.7%	50.8%	58.7%	62.4%	287	565
Mid-Clock	1023	36.5%	179	302	59.3%	36.3%	77	161	47.8%	15.6%	101	291	34.7%	30.8%	170	232	73.3%	17.3%	167	16.3%	985	34.4%	0.963	209	58.5%	47.3%	54.0%	53.4%	357	754
Late Clock	562	20.0%	108	164	65.9%	39.4%	41	114	36.0%	15.0%	57	155	36.8%	31.2%	79	100	79.0%	14.4%	83	14.8%	548	19.2%	0.975	131	63.6%	47.6%	54.2%	53.5%	206	433
Total Off Reb	342	12.2%	99	165	60.0%	51.8%	15	28	53.6%	7.9%	20	55	36.4%	15.7%	94	115	81.7%	24.6%	38	11.1%	382	13.4%	1.117	45	33.6%	54.0%	58.1%	62.8%	134	248
Opponents of Xavier	Poss	% of All Poss	Rim Made	Rim Att	%	Rim Pts %	2ptJ Made	2ptJ Att	%	2ptJ Pts %	3pt Made	3pt Att	%	3pt Pts %	FT Made	FT Att	%	FT Pts %	TOs	TO %	Pts	% of Total Pts	PPP	AST	AST%	FG%	eFG%	TS%	FGM	FGA
All Possessions	2769	100.0%	420	739	56.8%	33.3%	205	517	39.7%	16.3%	292	878	33.3%	34.7%	395	526	75.1%	15.7%	387	14.0%	2521	100.0%	0.910	484	52.8%	43.0%	49.8%	49.3%	917	2134
All Initial FGA	2469	89.2%	355	628	56.5%	32.0%	193	479	40.3%	17.4%	263	799	32.9%	35.6%	331	446	74.2%	14.9%	356	14.4%	2216	87.9%	0.898	455	56.1%	42.5%	49.4%	48.6%	811	1906
Transition	733	26.5%	154	244	63.1%	41.3%	42	80	52.5%	11.3%	73	218	33.5%	29.4%	134	173	77.5%	18.0%	110	15.0%	745	29.6%	1.016	163	60.6%	49.6%	56.4%	56.4%	269	542
Mid-Clock	1038	37.5%	123	235	52.3%	26.7%	91	225	40.4%	19.8%	119	348	34.2%	38.8%	135	190	71.1%	14.7%	143	13.8%	920	36.5%	0.886	178	53.5%	41.2%	48.6%	46.9%	333	808
Late Clock	698	25.2%	78	149	52.3%	28.3%	60	174	34.5%	21.8%	71	233	30.5%	38.7%	62	83	74.7%	11.3%	103	14.8%	551	21.9%	0.789	114	54.5%	37.6%	44.0%	42.4%	209	556
Total Off Reb	300	10.8%	65	111	58.6%	42.6%	12	38	31.6%	7.9%	29	79	36.7%	28.5%	64	80	80.0%	21.0%	31	10.3%	305	12.1%	1.017	29	27.4%	46.5%	52.9%	55.2%	106	228

Transition

Xavier averages no less than 35 % of their points coming at the rim in any time interval, including 35.5 % in transition,
Just as notably, Xavier gets 30% of their points in transition at the free throw line (81.1% FT %)
62% of Xavier's transition possessions occur after defensive rebounds. (22% of all Xavier possessions)
61% eFG% on transition 3 point jumpers, with many occuring along the left hand side (free throw line extended).
J.P Macura, Kaiser Gates, and Trevon Bluiett have combined for 75 transition 3's.
Opponents of Xavier shoot equally well at the rim in transition but are held to 50.3% eFG% from 3 (56.4% eFG% allowed by Xavier's transition defense)
Xavier holds down opponents rate of transition by their own offense's scoring rate since getting a good shot up in the first ten seconds is not easily accomplished after an opponent keeps scoring on you

Mid-Clock

Xavier is less efficient in this part of the possession, partially due to settling for more two point jumpers since their attempts are blocked at a reasonably high rate
54% eFG% and 31% of Xavier's points coming from beyond the arc
Xavier allowed 51.3% eFG% from distance and an overall 39% of points from 3.

Late Clock

Xavier managed 55.2% eFG% on their late clock shots from deep and every last three was assisted.
Most of Xavier's late clock possessions occur after an opponent scores (15.2% of all possessions are late clock possessions)
Xavier holds teams to 47% eFG% on late clock three point attempts, but all made threes by their opponents were also assisted.

After Offensive Rebounds

Xavier is pretty good at offensive rebounding, but it is not particularly evident because they hit such a high percentage of their shots and free throws. FSU would probably rank much higher in offensive rebound rate if FSU was a better free throw shooting team (since those are rarely recovered by the offense)
Between Kerem Kanter inhaling rebounds and the high efficiency of the free throw shooters, this is just not somewhere you want to foul or give up an easy look.

Xavier	Poss	% of All Poss	Rim Made	Rim Att	%	Rim Pts %	2ptJ Made	2ptJ Att	%	2ptJ Pts %	3pt Made	3pt Att	%	3pt Pts %	FT Made	FT Att	%	FT Pts %	TOs	TO %	Pts	%Total Pts	PPP	Ast	Ast %	FG%	eFG%	TS%
Total OppScore	1108	45.0%	245	383	64.0%	38.6%	83	205	40.5%	13.1%	114	328	34.8%	27.0%	270	346	78.0%	21.3%	192	17.3%	1268	44.3%	1.144	255	57.7%	48.3%	54.5%	56.4%
OppScore - Transition	163	6.6%	20	31	64.5%	25.0%	5	19	26.3%	6.3%	13	39	33.3%	24.4%	71	83	85.5%	44.4%	32	19.6%	160	5.6%	0.982	26	68.4%	42.7%	50.0%	63.4%
OppScore - Mid-Clock	571	23.2%	130	203	64.0%	41.3%	44	96	45.8%	14.0%	59	164	36.0%	28.1%	104	144	72.2%	16.5%	95	16.6%	629	22.0%	1.102	127	54.5%	50.3%	56.7%	55.5%
OppScore - Late Clock	374	15.2%	95	149	63.8%	39.7%	34	90	37.8%	14.2%	42	125	33.6%	26.3%	95	119	79.8%	19.8%	65	17.4%	479	16.7%	1.281	102	59.6%	47.0%	52.7%	55.1%
Total Def Reb	970	39.4%	195	349	55.9%	35.1%	58	130	44.6%	10.4%	115	296	38.9%	31.1%	260	331	78.5%	23.4%	171	17.6%	1111	38.8%	1.145	214	58.2%	47.5%	54.9%	56.8%
Def Reb - Transition	545	22.1%	103	174	59.2%	33.8%	22	52	42.3%	7.2%	61	150	40.7%	30.0%	177	219	80.8%	29.0%	83	15.2%	610	21.3%	1.119	118	63.4%	49.5%	57.6%	61.0%
Def Reb - Mid-Clock	301	12.2%	56	116	48.3%	33.3%	25	50	50.0%	14.9%	37	97	38.1%	33.0%	63	87	72.4%	18.8%	58	19.3%	336	11.7%	1.116	64	54.2%	44.9%	51.9%	51.7%
Def Reb - Late Clock	124	5.0%	36	59	61.0%	43.6%	11	28	39.3%	13.3%	17	49	34.7%	30.9%	20	25	80.0%	12.1%	30	24.2%	165	5.8%	1.331	32	50.0%	47.1%	53.3%	52.2%
Total Turnovers	189	7.7%	43	63	68.3%	38.1%	16	30	53.3%	14.2%	18	50	36.0%	23.9%	54	64	84.4%	23.9%	35	18.5%	226	7.9%	1.196	48	62.3%	53.8%	60.1%	63.3%
TO - Transition	27	1.1%	4	7	57.1%	32.0%	2	4	50.0%	16.0%	0	3	0.0%	0.0%	13	15	86.7%	52.0%	7	25.9%	25	0.9%	0.926	4	66.7%	42.9%	42.9%	65.5%
TO - Mid-Clock	117	4.8%	22	34	64.7%	34.1%	9	14	64.3%	14.0%	11	36	30.6%	25.6%	34	40	85.0%	26.4%	19	16.2%	129	4.5%	1.103	28	66.7%	50.0%	56.5%	61.3%
TO - Late Clock	45	1.8%	17	22	77.3%	47.2%	5	12	41.7%	13.9%	7	11	63.6%	29.2%	7	9	77.8%	9.7%	9	20.0%	72	2.5%	1.600	16	55.2%	64.4%	72.2%	66.7%
Total Steals	195	7.9%	71	104	68.3%	55.5%	6	17	35.3%	4.7%	20	45	44.4%	23.4%	42	55	76.4%	16.4%	28	14.4%	256	8.9%	1.313	48	49.5%	58.4%	64.5%	62.9%
Steals - Transition	142	5.8%	52	77	67.5%	55.0%	1	5	20.0%	1.1%	16	29	55.2%	25.4%	35	45	77.8%	18.5%	17	12.0%	189	6.6%	1.331	36	52.2%	62.2%	69.4%	66.7%
Steals - Mid-Clock	34	1.4%	11	15	73.3%	57.9%	5	11	45.5%	26.3%	0	9	0.0%	0.0%	6	7	85.7%	15.8%	8	23.5%	38	1.3%	1.118	4	25.0%	45.7%	45.7%	52.4%
Steals - Late Clock	19	0.8%	8	12	66.7%	55.2%	0	1	0.0%	0.0%	4	7	57.1%	41.4%	1	3	33.3%	3.4%	3	15.8%	29	1.0%	1.526	8	66.7%	60.0%	70.0%	56.5%
All Possessions	2462	100.0%	554	899	61.6%	38.7%	163	382	42.7%	11.4%	267	719	37.1%	28.0%	626	796	78.6%	21.9%	426	17.3%	2861	100.0%	1.162	565	57.4%	49.2%	55.9%	57.6%
Total Transition	877	35.6%	179	289	61.9%	36.4%	30	80	37.5%	6.1%	90	221	40.7%	27.4%	296	362	81.8%	30.1%	139	15.8%	984	34.4%	1.122	184	61.5%	50.7%	58.3%	62.5%
Total Mid-Clock	1023	41.6%	219	368	59.5%	38.7%	83	171	48.5%	14.7%	107	306	35.0%	28.4%	207	278	74.5%	18.3%	180	17.6%	1132	39.6%	1.107	223	54.5%	48.4%	54.7%	54.9%
Total Late Offense	562	22.8%	156	242	64.5%	41.9%	50	131	38.2%	13.4%	70	192	36.5%	28.2%	123	156	78.8%	16.5%	107	19.0%	745	26.0%	1.326	158	57.2%	48.8%	55.0%	55.3%