Thursday, September 03, 2015

Syracuse Offensive Rebounding 2002-2015

Maybe Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim does know a thing or two about coaching.  Ken Pomeroy did an analysis of which NCAA coaches have the best offensive rebounding teams. Pomeroy looked  the 177 head coaches with 10+ years of coaching experience since 2002, and these were the results:

 1 Jim Calhoun   40.0%
 2 Jamie Dixon   39.4%
 3 Roy Williams  39.3%
 4 Rick Barnes   38.3%
 5 John Calipari 38.6%
 6 Blaine Taylor 38.1%
 7 Bob Huggins   37.7%
 8 Jim Boeheim   37.3%
 9 Mick Cronin   37.3%
10 Tubby Smith   37.1%

Boeheim's teams are the 8th best in the country (out of 177) at offensive rebounding.  Clearly there is a correlation between winning basketball games and offensive rebounding as there are several notable coaches on that top 10 list.

During that time span, these are the notable offensive rebounders for the Orange:


Player Season Off. Reb
Rakeem Christmas 2014-2015 97
C.J. Fair 2012-2013 84
Fab Melo 2011-2012 80
Rick Jackson 2010-2011 120
Rick Jackson 2009-2010 94
Arinze Onuaku 2008-2009 108
Paul Harris 2008-2009 89
Arinze Onuaku 2007-2008 114
Paul Harris 2007-2008 99
Darryl Watkins 2006-2007 96
Terrence Roberts 2006-2007 95
Terrence Roberts 2005-2006 104
Darryl Watkins 2005-2006 97
Hakim Warrick 2004-2005 106
Hakim Warrick 2003-2004 98
Hakim Warrick 2002-2003 112
Carmelo Anthony 2002-2003 101

I knew Rick Jackson and Arinze Onuaku were outstanding offensive rebounders, and I've always thought Paul Harris, despite all his other faults, was an outstanding offensive rebounder.  I did not really realize how good Hakim Warrick was.

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