Could be re. the officiating. But I tend to look at these things more from the top down unless/until I deep-dive the stats. And here's how I saw the possible explanations for this game's outcome...
1. Florida's just another $hit SEC basketball team. (Their only good win was over LPT...)
2. Florida had a bad game.
3(a). LPT had a good game with no easily assignable cause.
3(b). LPT has improved.
1 and 2 have to do with Florida and have little or nothing to do with LPT. 3(a) and 3(b) are just the opposite. Both mean LPT's play was the determining factor, but 3(a) is not an outcome you can count on going forward.
Based on the two stats I quoted in the OP--which are important and different from most of LPT's opponents--my take is that the result was likely due to number 2, that Florida just had a bad game. I'm giving the Gators the benefit of the doubt that they're actually a better team than they showed yesterday albeit with little proof. They could in reality be
"another $hit SEC basketball team."
Next most likely IMO is 3(a), that LPT simply had a better-than-expected game. But unless there's an assignable cause--a "tweak" or "reboot"
--it's nothing you can bank on. I'll let an LPT apologist at this point try to make the case for 3(b).
"Elite program", my a$$...
