Besides Chris Collins being a hell of a coach. Outside of Crawford, that roster is hot garbage. Offensively, maybe, although I don't think Demps has been garbage offensively this season. They have some pretty active defenders. Agreed, but, quite frankly, a large portion of just about any team's defensive intensity and effort are directly from coaching emphasis, and that is magnified on this NW team that isn't extremely athletic. They were 7-6 in the Non-Con including a loss to DePaul and some awful blowout losses in B1G play, but they have maintained effort. Good for them. Yeah I agree for the most part (excepting that Cobb, Crawford, and Lumpkin are certainly athletic). The interesting thing for me, as I've mentioned, is that the defensive the uptick is strongly correlated with Sobo's minutes. Starting PG gets hurt, team wins. The Oeff/Deff ranking split is almost as extreme as it was under Carmody... But flipped.