Rutgers - KenPom Adjusted Defensive and Offensive Efficiency, and Schedule Strength 2020-24

[NiTeKnight]

Year​	Rank​	Adjusted Defensive Efficiency​	Adjusted Offensive Efficiency​	Strength of Schedule​
2020​	28	6	72	31
2021​	38	16	82	7
2022​	77	53	96	49
2023​	39	6	151	49
2024​	98	4	295	17

Ranked out of about 350-360 D-1 schools.

Personally, I feel RU should have made the NCAA Tournament 2020-2023.
Ken has Rutgers schedule tougher this year than the last two.
Not a good trend in the adjusted offensive efficiency column.
If you believe these numbers, it's pretty clear you can't have a great season with just a very good defense.
Next year, hopefully, there will be a massive increase in offensive efficiency, and defensive efficiency will not drop much. GO RU!

 

[fluoxetine]

Year​	Rank​	Adjusted Defensive Efficiency​	Adjusted Offensive Efficiency​	Strength of Schedule​
2020​	28	6	72	31
2021​	38	16	82	7
2022​	77	53	96	49
2023​	39	6	151	49
2024​	98	4	295	17

Ranked out of about 350-360 D-1 schools.

Personally, I feel RU should have made the NCAA Tournament 2020-2023.
Ken has Rutgers schedule tougher this year than the last two.
Not a good trend in the adjusted offensive efficiency column.
If you believe these numbers, it's pretty clear you can't have a great season with just a very good defense.
Next year, hopefully, there will be a massive increase in offensive efficiency, and defensive efficiency will not drop much. GO RU!

I think that depends what you mean by "just a very good defense." If we grade on the scale of power conference teams, anything below #50 or so isn't great (i.e. not at tournament level / fairly mediocre).

If you put the #50 offense together with last year's defense it would have been #13 overall. If you put the #50 offense together with this year's defense it would be #15 overall.

#100 is pretty clearly bad for a power conference team (as evidenced by the fact that we are #98 overall this season).

If you put the #100 offense together with last year's defense it would have been #22 overall. If you put the #100 offense together with this year's defense it would be #24 overall.

I think this says that you can do it with "just defense", in the sense that you can be a very good team (top 25) with a bad offense and a top 15 team with an average offense. You can't be terrible (#151) or historically woeful (#295) and expect to get anywhere though.

 

[RUBlackout]

Speaks volumes!!! You need offense and points to win games.

 

[rubjk]

Year​	Rank​	Adjusted Defensive Efficiency​	Adjusted Offensive Efficiency​	Strength of Schedule​
2020​	28	6	72	31
2021​	38	16	82	7
2022​	77	53	96	49
2023​	39	6	151	49
2024​	98	4	295	17

Ranked out of about 350-360 D-1 schools.

Personally, I feel RU should have made the NCAA Tournament 2020-2023.
Ken has Rutgers schedule tougher this year than the last two.
Not a good trend in the adjusted offensive efficiency column.
If you believe these numbers, it's pretty clear you can't have a great season with just a very good defense.
Next year, hopefully, there will be a massive increase in offensive efficiency, and defensive efficiency will not drop much. GO RU!

You can have a good season with good defense and average offense. Gotta average in 70+ ppg.

 

[G- RUnit]

You have to hit threes as part of that offense as cures alot of ills.

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

I think that depends what you mean by "just a very good defense." If we grade on the scale of power conference teams, anything below #50 or so isn't great (i.e. not at tournament level / fairly mediocre).

If you put the #50 offense together with last year's defense it would have been #13 overall. If you put the #50 offense together with this year's defense it would be #15 overall.

#100 is pretty clearly bad for a power conference team (as evidenced by the fact that we are #98 overall this season).

If you put the #100 offense together with last year's defense it would have been #22 overall. If you put the #100 offense together with this year's defense it would be #24 overall.

I think this says that you can do it with "just defense", in the sense that you can be a very good team (top 25) with a bad offense and a top 15 team with an average offense. You can't be terrible (#151) or historically woeful (#295) and expect to get anywhere though.

This. I’m fairly certain the reverse would also be true. The number 4 offense paired with the 295th best defense. 295 out of 362 D1 schools isn’t just “bad”. Only 67 schools total are worse. Think about what that means. There are 32 divisions. No more than 12 of them at most will get any at large bids. So 20 autobid only conferences. Let’s say they each had 10 teams each on average although it’s probably even more. The bottom halves of those conferences make up 100+ teams. Rutgers is worse at adjusted offense than at least 33 of them. Thats not even including the bottom halves of the 2 bid leagues, and those teams on average are better at offense than us too. We’re that bad.