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If you've been around here a minute you've probably seen many of these on/off charts from Hoop Lens:

Martelli on the Purdue game. The real one:

"We've done a much better job of tracing the ball and not leaving the big guy on an island," Martelli said. "When we put clips together for this game from the last game (against Purdue), we were like, 'Wow. How did we get to where we are?'" …

"We could have stayed out there another 20 minutes, they just were not going to score enough," Martelli said after Purdue.

Still kind of felt like the big was on an island for much of that game, but the results were excellent.

Shot volume. This John Gasaway piece on shot volume is a little old but feels even more relevant after Michigan scraped out a win against Purdue in which they turned the ball over just three times. Michigan is amongst the national leaders in getting shots up:

Gluttonous               TO%     OR%     SVI
1.  LSU                 16.5    36.2    100.5
2.  Auburn              16.7    35.3     99.8
3.  Illinois            16.3    33.3     99.3
4.  Michigan            14.0    27.0     99.0
5.  Purdue              16.3    32.4     98.9
6.  Arizona             16.0    31.2     98.7
7.  Minnesota           15.7    30.4     98.7
8.  St. John's          14.0    25.8     98.5
9.  Baylor              18.4    36.5     98.3
10. Rutgers             16.2    30.9     98.3

Michigan may have inched up past Illinois after the Purdue game knocked their conference TO rate down to 13.6. (If it sticks there this will be uncanny consistency in the Age of X. Last year Michigan's conference TO rate was 13.5; the year before it was 13.6.)

[After THE JUMP: Kenpom is yelled at for stuff he didn't do]

This hit the feed today and caused a spiral of google searching and squinting at dense technical stats articles:

Introducing Bayesian Adjusted RAPM for NCAA! Norvell/Hunter top the list in 2019 - see more @tothemean https://t.co/z15ybWpr7Z pic.twitter.com/WtslRbKqXz

— Jesse Fischer (@jessefischer33) May 1, 2019

Naturally, you are thinking "what the hell is that?" if you didn't immediately log off. If this stat (BARAPM) adds any more components it's going to sound like you're firing a machine gun whenever you mention it.

[AFTER THE JUMP: wonkery and then an Isaiah Livers takeaway]