Drexel's win and Bruiser's plea

Pop quiz:

Which team this morning shot a higher field goal percentage and three-point percentage, had a far superior assist-to-turnover ratio, got more points in the paint and fast break points and had a higher points-per-possession average than the other team?

And which team only led for the first 39 seconds of play?

If you guessed Penn for both, you win nothing. But Drexel's 66-64 win this morning does show that soccer isn't the only funny old game in this world.

Honestly, I can't recall any point during the second half at which I thought Penn would win, until Zack Rosen got fouled jacking up a one-handed three-pointer and went to the line.

Naturally, Rosen missed the first free throw. Then Brennan Votel's putback after the third shot fell short, and the game was over.

The

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make for some rather gruesome reading, but here goes anyawy...

Penn shot 23-for-61 from the field (37.7%), including 5-for-19 from three-point range (26.3%) and 18-for-42 from two-point range (42.9%), and 13-for-28 from the free throw line (46.4%).

Ten offensive rebounds, 27 defensive rebounsd, 17 assists, seven turnovers, four blocks, four steals and 26 fouls committed.

That adds up to 71 possessions and 0.90 points per possession.

Drexel shot 22-for-59 from the field (37.3%), including 5-for-20 from three-point range (25.0%) and 17-for-39 from two-point range (58.6%), and 17-for-32 from the free throw line (53.1%).

Fifteen offensive rebounds, 32 defensive rebounds, 14 assists, 12 turnovers, four blocks, three steals and 25 fouls committed.

That adds up to 72 possessions and 0.91 points per possession.

The assists-to-turnover ratio is pretty striking, but the rebounding differential is what decided the game. Yes, the free throw shooting mattered a lot, especially because Penn missedo some big ones at key times in the second half.

But Drexel got a third of the boards at its own end of the floor and scored 19 second-chance points, while Penn got only 28.9 percent and scored eight second-chance points.

There's the difference to me.

No one was really good enough to earn Line of the Day, to be honest. But credit to Drexel's freshman forward Samme Givens, who pulled down five offensive rebounds and five defensive rebounds in the game.

Now for the real news, and you probably knew this would happen at some point.

For a while now, Drexel coach Bruiser Flint has been talking loudly about how he won't play Big 5 teams unless they come play at the DAC. Well, Flint took full advantage of his time in the spotlight today to make his case once again.

I present to you a transcript of Flint's remarks on the matter during his postgame press conference. You can listen to the audio of the whole thing below.

The reporters collectively gasped.

The house roared with laughter.

To his credit, Flint almost never raised his voice beyond a regular speaking level throughout the whole thing. And it's hard to not be sympathetic to the idea of wanting to have true home games on your floor.

But I think the truer measure of whether teams will go to Drexel will be when the Armory opens (whenever that ends up happening, and at this point, who knows). It will be a bigger and generally better venue, and that should help Flint and the Dragons draw better opponents.

It really is a problem suffered by mid-major schools nationwide. At some point, hopefully the logjam will break.

Then again, we're all still waiting for Syracuse to leave the state of New York before January, aren't we.

What do you think?