Stetson started with new coach optimism for Casey Alexander but finished poorly. The model that he was emulating was clear as the Hatters finished second only to Belmont in assists and 3 pointers made. But although Alexander returns his top 6 players, he might be better advised to clean house and hit the recruiting trail if he can’t get a better effort out of his returnees than he got down the stretch last year. In any case he will have a job convincing those who return that they can win. As with Jacksonville, it’s still hard to see them being worse than this year’s 9-20 (6-12 in conference). Kyle Sicora 7’0” 240 transfer arrives from Oakland where he averaged 1.5 points and 1.8 rebounds in 10 minutes over 33 games. Also freshmen 6’6” 215 Adeleke Solanke; 6’0” Indiana guard Logan Irwin; 6’7” 205 Brian Pegg, and 6’2” Tanner Plemmons. They lose Tyshawn Patterson, Amara Thompson, Jermol Paul and Diego Morales.
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The depressing part of Stetson’s last season is this: they started 4-2 in the ASun, but finished 2-10, with a loss to Savannah State added in for good measure making them 2-11 down the stretch. Tough as the season was, Coach Alexander continued a Derek Waugh tradition, knocking off the ETSU Bucs in their first meeting of the year, before getting beat 72-56 in the Minidome.
Part of the problem is the turnover margin – the Hatters finished dead last in the ASun with -3.97. That’s twice as much as the next worst ASun team, UNF with -1.81. This ranks them a miserable 329 out of 337 D1 schools. There are 281 ranked D1 schools that all have turnover margins less than half that of Stetson. http://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/519/p7
Rebounding could also be better. Despite the size and muscle of 6’9” 260 Adam Pegg (an excellent scorer at 14.9 ppg) and 6’9” 230 Liam McInerney, rebounding margin was a mediocre +0.3, 5th in the ASun. That’s not terrible, but they should be able to do better.
There is some low hanging fruit here. They were
bad enough in the last half of the season that an attitude transplant could spark significant results. I don’t think that recruiting has brought in a lot of difference makers, but the talent on the floor could do better than what they did – as they showed in the first half of the season.
The depressing part of Stetson’s last season is this: they started 4-2 in the ASun, but finished 2-10, with a loss to Savannah State added in for good measure making them 2-11 down the stretch. Tough as the season was, Coach Alexander continued a Derek Waugh tradition, knocking off the ETSU Bucs in their first meeting of the year, before getting beat 72-56 in the Minidome.
Part of the problem is the turnover margin – the Hatters finished dead last in the ASun with -3.97. That’s twice as much as the next worst ASun team, UNF with -1.81. This ranks them a miserable 329 out of 337 D1 schools. There are 281 ranked D1 schools that all have turnover margins less than half that of Stetson. http://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/519/p7
Rebounding could also be better. Despite the size and muscle of 6’9” 260 Adam Pegg (an excellent scorer at 14.9 ppg) and 6’9” 230 Liam McInerney, rebounding margin was a mediocre +0.3, 5th in the ASun. That’s not terrible, but they should be able to do better.
There is some low hanging fruit here. They were
bad enough in the last half of the season that an attitude transplant could spark significant results. I don’t think that recruiting has brought in a lot of difference makers, but the talent on the floor could do better than what they did – as they showed in the first half of the season.