Scorelines are apt to expand in pre-league play but once conference play begins, the pace seems to slow...witness IU-Indy vs. Detroit last night, landing well beneath the 183 total in the Horizon. Something similar perhaps in the Big West, as CSF has been running to its heart's content in pre-league play, scoring at a brisk 88.1 ppg, but not too efficiently, hoisting nearly70 shots pg and connecting on barely 30% of its triples. Cal Poly has been involved in some racehorse-like games, too, and is hitting its triples (35%) better than the Titans, but the Mustangs don't have an especially-efficient offense, either (just 42% FGs), and almost all of the scoring comes from the perimeter in Mike DeGeorge's effective 5_G lineup. Play Cal Poly-CSF Under

I no longer look at models for sides, but I'm "totals challenged" so then I do need to look. None have this approaching this sky-high number and it has been going up all morning (think it peaked here). The closest I've seen is 173 and that was an outlier number. Most are in the mid-160s and ours has 164. More and more teams are playing fast -- both these two rank Top 15 in tempo -- because it's a better recruiting tool than, say, playing at Virginia when Tony Bennett used to coach and the Wahoos often had games in the 50s. The hosts sit 204th nationally in points per possession and Cal Poly 275th. So they play fast but not necessarily efficient.