I’m not sure of the backstory here, but Martire’s game against ODU couldn’t have been more different than her results from W&M’s first game against Duke. In that one, she managed to get off not a single shot. In this one, she took 12. This is the largest EGA jump any player has made from week 1 to week 2.

Her 2020 season suggests that we should expect more games like this one from Martire going forward. Seems like Duke was an aberration.

Harris is a great example of how increased production can be addition by subtraction. She is shooting just as well as she did last year, but so far, through 3 games, her turnover rate is half of what it was last year.

The Eagles got off to a hot start against Albany, but we’ll have to wait and see whether North is able to get off 11 shots per game against the ACC slate they are going to face.

Baiocco’s highest shooting percentage for a full season came in 2019 (45.2%). Unlikely she’ll stay in the 70% range this year, but if she can be go from 45% to mayb4 48% or 50%, that would be a huge boost for Stanford given that she has a high percentage of the team’s plays.

Northwestern seems to have taken advantage of the redo against Hopkins. The Wildcats offense was 5 percentage points better in the 2nd game. Same goes for Scane. She shot 33% in the first game and 46.7% on her way to a 7-goal performance.

For her part, Kerstetter was a big part of Wagner sticking with Nova until the end. She finished with just 1 turnover, against a 6.3% weighted play share. That works out to an individual turnover rate of just .17. Last year, her turnover rate was .82. I’m not sure of the backstory here, but her role this year seems to have exploded compared with her prior 2 seasons. Given her efficiency, that is great news for Wagner.

In the 2nd game, she turned it over 5 times and got off just 5 shots. I’m not enough of a tactical expert to be able to recognize what Michigan did differently, but it had a big impact. In the first game, MD, as a team, scored on 45% of their possessions. In game 2, it was just 24%. Oddly, the 2nd game was played much faster than the first; Maryland’s average possession lasted 46.2 seconds in the first game and 28.9 seconds in the 2nd game.

In her last game, she scored 6 goals on 6 shots and had 2 GBs to go with 3 turnovers. This was an arguably more well-rounded performance, as she added an assist, 6 GBs and just 1 TO against a much more highly rated defense in St Joe’s. St Joe’s is the 19th ranked opponent-adjusted defense in WLAX; Lehigh is 59th.

The Akron D is much better than Wofford (33rd on an opponent-adjusted basis vs 76th for Wofford), and it showed in the way they were able to limit assists for the Bulldogs. GWU assisted on 42% of their goals against Wofford and just 19% against Akron. In that sort of situation, a team needs a player who can make their own offense.

This is an offense that relies on assists (60% of goals were assisted last year). Offenses that rely on assists can be turnover prone, but so far, Comerford has yet to commit a turnover. If that continues, the Wildcats may be able to keep up the offensive efficiency mark they’ve set so far (30.9%), which would be their highest since at least 2015.