Offered for your consideration, and without further analysis. (For now. We'll have more on this later.)
Adjusted efficiency is how a team would be expected to perform against an average opponent on a neutral court. If you don't know what efficiency is or why it matters, start here.
| Adjusted Offensive Efficiency (National Rank) |
Adjusted Defensive Efficiency (National Rank) |
|
| Washington State | 124.7 (2) | 113.0 (317) |
| Gonzaga | 108.3 (79) | 91.0 (69) |
Granted, it's still very early in the season, and these adjusted ratings tend to fluctuate pretty significantly thanks to small sample size. But who would have thought, after the last half a decade, that Gonzaga would enter tomorrow night's matchup as the dominant defensive team? And that the Cougs would be the team with the offensive juggernaut?
Weird.