NOTE: In this and the offensive post, when I refer to "offense" or "defense", I mean the team that is put out there when receiving or pulling, respectively. "Offensive defense" refers to when a team receives and turns it over, how good their defense is.

Their defense was pretty good, too, statistically again perhaps the best. Some high points:

• First in overall efficiency (31.8%, average 42.5%).
• Second in preventing the other team from scoring that point. When they started the point on defense, they scored that point over half the time (39.0% average) (Double also scored over half the time).
• Forced the most multiple turnover points (19).
• Were second best at stopping the score immediately off the pull.
• Their ability to score once they got a turnover was only slightly above average. They and Cornell were the only teams to have their offense outperform their defense both offensively and defensively. On average, teams efficiencies were 8 percentage points higher after a turnover than off the pull (39% off the pull, 47% after a turnover), so the defensive squad should have better percentages than the offensive squad. This makes sense since the defensive outfit gets the disc in good field position more frequently. However, Cojones and Cornell both went against this trend. (Cornell, incidentally, in their four big losses, put defense out 36 times, and scored only twice). For both these teams, this would suggest that they try different substitution schemes to get more offensively minded players into the defensive outfit.

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