I went back and watched a few minutes of this game. The individual defensive effort is frankly kind of shocking. There were a lot of straight-line drives where the defender just didn’t stay in front. The backcourt got bullied whenever they did manage to stay in front. Samson needed help whenever he got posted up. The individual defensive effort needs to get substantially better, or this team isn’t going to have a very high ceiling. I hope they’re able to refocus and figure some things out during the exam break.
As a side note, I saw some discussion of Yale’s at-large chances yesterday. The consensus seems to be that there’s a possibility even with an Alabama loss, but they’d need to go 13-1 or better in conference. Torvik’s Wins Above Bubble stat supports that take, but I’m not sure 13-1 in conference would be good enough. (I also don’t think the defense is good enough to go 13-1 in conference right now, but that’s another thing altogether.)