Buzz Williams has his own approach to analytics

Texas A&M basketball coach Buzz Williams is big on analytics in college basketball, but he also understands that sometimes there's more to winning than just the numbers.

Williams is set for his first season in College Station, and he'll undoubtedly dive into certain stats to look at potential areas of improvement for the team.

But while analytics do play a role in Williams' coaching philosophy, he has no intention of letting it be the only deciding factor when it comes to approaching the game in an effective manner.

"I try not to ever let the numbers infect what my eyes see," Williams said last week at SEC Media Day in Birmingham. "I probably don’t study specifically the analytics that most people do. Over the last couple of decades I’ve kind of figured out what I think is important to winning, and those are the numbers that I study. I never want to get so lost in the numbers that I allow the numbers to replace my eyes."

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Blake Lovell is a national college basketball writer. He’s a contributor for the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and Athlon Sports College Basketball Preview magazine. He also hosts the Marching to Madness podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @theblakelovell.