Putting Up Numbers· women's college basketball

Wake Forest’s rebounds at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Wake Forest was 2.4 rebounds under at home and 2.3 rebounds over away over its last 60 games, 35 games against 21. The plain averages are 28.2 and 30.2, a difference of 2.0. Expected was 2.8 rebounds higher at home than away. All 3 top-10 opponents were away.

Wake Forest’s −4.8 at home vs away over expected ranks 363rd of the 363 teams with 6 games on each side over their last 60 games through Mar 19, 2026.

rebounds a game over expected

A −4.8 difference in rebounds over expected at home vs away is rare: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up less than once in 100.

A −2.0 difference in rebounds at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Wake Forest’s games, last 60 games, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultreboundsExpected
Nov 7, 2024@CharlotteW2929.3
Nov 10, 2024@VillanovaL3728.4
Nov 17, 2024vsWinthropW2932.3
Nov 20, 2024vsGeorge MasonL3129.5
Nov 23, 2024vsDavidsonW3025.9
Nov 27, 2024vsFairfieldL2229.2
Dec 1, 2024vsGardner-WebbW3436.9
Dec 4, 2024vsCampbellW3730.7
Dec 8, 2024@St. John'sL2826.7
Dec 15, 2024vsClemsonL2326.0
Dec 20, 2024vsUNC GreensboroW2728.1
Jan 2, 2025@VirginiaL2328.4
Jan 5, 2025vsLouisvilleL2325.0
Jan 9, 2025@Notre DameL3124.4
Jan 12, 2025@Virginia TechL2324.8
Jan 16, 2025vsStanfordL2326.1
Jan 19, 2025vsCaliforniaL1824.5
Jan 23, 2025@North CarolinaL1727.4
Jan 26, 2025vsBoston CollegeW2427.2
Jan 30, 2025vsNC StateL2028.9
Feb 2, 2025@Florida StateL3928.9
Feb 9, 2025@SyracuseL3129.0
Feb 13, 2025vsDukeL1721.9
Feb 16, 2025@Georgia TechL3325.2
Feb 20, 2025vsSMUW2831.3
Feb 23, 2025@MiamiL2525.7
Feb 27, 2025@NC StateL3427.3
Mar 2, 2025vsPittsburghL2430.8
Nov 3, 2025vsRadfordW4336.8
Nov 6, 2025vsPresbyterianW4334.6
Nov 9, 2025vsHamptonW4038.2
Nov 13, 2025vsMercerW3035.3
Nov 20, 2025vsNorth Carolina CentralW3839.2
Nov 23, 2025vsWestern CarolinaW3233.8
Nov 26, 2025vsMorgan State (neutral)W4836.6
Nov 27, 2025vsUCF (neutral)W3730.0
Nov 28, 2025vsIllinois State (neutral)W2730.9
Dec 3, 2025vsWilliam & MaryL2835.1
Dec 7, 2025vsGeorgetownL2429.8
Dec 14, 2025vsGeorgia TechW2931.5
Dec 18, 2025vsMiamiL2228.6
Dec 22, 2025vsGardner-WebbW3337.5
Jan 1, 2026@PittsburghW3933.3
Jan 4, 2026vsSyracuseL3127.0
Jan 8, 2026@StanfordL3026.8
Jan 11, 2026@CaliforniaL2926.2
Jan 15, 2026vsNC StateL1930.1
Jan 18, 2026@ClemsonL3225.3
Jan 24, 2026vsVirginia TechL2829.8
Jan 29, 2026vsVirginiaL3326.7
Feb 1, 2026@DukeL3724.8
Feb 5, 2026@SMUW2934.8
Feb 8, 2026vsNorth CarolinaL2027.1
Feb 12, 2026@LouisvilleL2827.1
Feb 19, 2026vsNotre DameL2328.6
Feb 22, 2026@Boston CollegeW3632.5
Feb 26, 2026@NC StateL2429.1
Mar 1, 2026vsFlorida StateL3234.7
Mar 4, 2026vsCalifornia (neutral)L2626.8
Mar 19, 2026vsMaryland Eastern ShoreL2933.4

Method

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  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.4 in 2024-25, plus 0.4 in 2025-26 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 90% in 2024-25, 91% in 2025-26 of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.