March Madness picks, odds, and predictions for Washington State Cougars vs Iowa State Cyclones. March Madness free picks and best bet analysis.
It wasn't pretty but Washington State did enough offensively to sneak by Drake in round one. Their reward? A date with one of the best defensive teams in the country. Our college expert believes Iowa State puts the clam on the Cougars offense.
The Cyclones give up so many offensive rebounds because they force so many ill-advised deep shots. Opponents took 45% of their shots from beyond the arc, the 10th-highest rate in the country and 7.7 percentage points higher than the national average. Those opponents didn’t want to, they just didn’t have a choice.
Washington State will hate this Cyclones’ emphasis. The Cougars took 3s on only 31.8% of their possessions, No. 304 in the country. They made a pedestrian 34.3% of them. That latter number is tolerable, but it was inspired largely by their overall discretion. Without that discretion, when being forced to heave from deep by Iowa State’s defense, the misses will pile up.
This Cyclones’ defensive weakness is not so much a weakness as it is a symptom. Do not let that symptom inspire any faith in the Cougars’ offense against the best defense in the country.Washington State benefiting from offensive rebounds off long misses will work counter to Isaac Jones’s securing boards. The 6-foot-9 senior is the Cougars’ best offensive rebounder, but those shots will fly back past him when Washington State is forced to shoot from deep over and over again.
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