AttyAlum wrote:The one knock under Mac is that he doesn’t play his bench enough, or have a deep enough bench to earn playing time, depending on one’s perspective. I believe that this lack of depth will keep us from winning a conference tourney championship. When we have made the final game, our guys have been pretty gassed.
Of course, I also believe that it isn’t all bad to get knocked out of conference tourneys and rest your guys before the big dance.
We aren’t in the MVC anymore - we don’t need conference tourneys to make the dance.
Probably worth noting that St. John's (26.3% bench minute), Marquette (26.2%), Xavier (24.4%) and Villanova (20.3%) all play their bench less than Creighton does (28.2%).
Obviously that doesn't tell the whole story as it's possible if not likely Kalkbrenner, Ashworth and Neal all play 38-40 minutes in any given game, but this year's team isn't last year's in terms of its bench usage.