Today Sean Mosley stressed that you can’t beat Duke while making mistakes because they will take advantage. While Gary Williams added that his team should strive to never make mistakes he did agree that it seemed as if Duke took advantage of turnovers more than other teams. This seemed to be begging for a statistical analysis. When I hinted to Patrick Stevens of D1scourse.com during the press conference via twitter (where you can follow me @sconnolly114) that he should investigate this he gave me a look and shook his head. Alas, I was left to do the analysis myself while bored in class. Let’s get right to the chart.
Note: BC and FSU don't make their points off turnovers available through their season stats, game notes, or game box scores.
So Duke doesn't get the most points per turnover, that title belongs to NC State. However, the Duke gets 5 more points per game off of turnovers so you could argue that Duke does make the most of other teams' mistakes.
For the Terps - they are middle of the pack in terms of points per turnover, but they second in conference in both opponent's to/g and points off turnovers per game. This shouldn't be too surprising as the Terps have pressed opponents for most of the season forcing a lot of turnovers, but sometimes failing to convert on those fast break opportunities.
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