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Virginia Tech, Tyrece Radford
Tyrece Radford has been Virginia Tech’s best player. (Ivan Morozov)

1) What are the +/- in points for each player on the men’s basketball team?  I seem to recall you used to evaluate this metric regularly on Buzz’s teams and include these stats in your articles. Can’t recall if there was a specific name for this stat, but it was basically a measure of their impact on games. – Babcock

Chris Coleman: Plus/minus numbers can be misleading at times.  For example, I thought Tyrece Radford was the best player on the court in the first half of the Clemson game, but he was a -1 at halftime despite the fact that the Hokies were up 30-25.  There are lots of other metrics to use, and I’ll use four of them today.

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