While Duke kept it close in the first half, and Ohio St. had a dramatic comeback, for the most part the Elite Eight was a series of blowouts. Rather than look back at that action, let’s look ahead to the Final Four. Here is how every single player in the Final Four has performed in the first four tournament games:

Wichita St. has a reputation for playing a longer rotation than most teams. But Gregg Marshall has substantially shortened his rotation in the tournament. The players on the tail end of the bench each played 15-30% of the minutes in the regular season, but those numbers are much lower now.

Most interestingly, senior Demetric Williams has seen his playing time plummet in the tournament. Williams started 16 games for Wichita St. this year and played vital minutes when the injury bug struck the team in January. But Williams was also the least efficient starter. And Gregg Marshall has decided to give him substantially less playing time in the NCAA tournament. So far it has worked.

During most of the season, Cleanthony Early has been the Shockers high volume shooter, but Malcolm Armstead has taken over that role in the tournament. That hasn’t always been a great formula. Armstead needed 21 shots to score 14 points in the win over Ohio St.

But luckily, Wichita St. freshman forward Ron Baker has saved his most efficient play for the tournament. Baker has 10 assists in 4 tournament games so far, but the real reason his efficiency is so high is that he has lived at the free throw line. Bakers has 23 free throw attempts on 21 field goal attempts in this first four tournament games. And by making 20 of those free throw attempts, Baker has been incredibly efficient. Normally fouling a freshman makes sense, but given Baker’s tournament efficiency, that strategy doesn’t look so good.

Tekele Cotton has also been plenty efficient, but that is largely due to how passive he has been offensively. (He has used only 12% of his team’s possessions.) But for a quiet player, he may have hit the loudest Wichita St. shot of the season when his three pointer stopped the huge Ohio St. rally on Saturday.

Carl Hall has the most blocks in the tournament of any player in the Final Four. Hall has 12 blocks, Louisville’s Gorgui Dieng has 10 blocks, Syracuse’s Baye Moussa Keita has 7 blocks, and the entire Michigan team has only 9 blocks.

In the regular season, Syracuse basically relied on four players for their scoring, and in the tournament that has continued. This is particularly true now that fifth leading scorer Rakeem Christmas has lost playing time to Baye Moussa Keita.

The bad news is that Brandon Triche is still struggling. He looked good against Montana, but shot terribly against California and Marquette and struggled with turnovers against Indiana. This continued the February trend of poor play and Jim Boeheim probably wishes he could let Triche spend more time on the bench until he breaks out of his slump. Unfortunately, Boeheim only has one other choice at the guard slot, and Trevor Cooney is also struggling mightily in the tournament.

Luckily for Syracuse fans, Michael Carter-Williams is playing better. The Syracuse point-guard’s turnover rate is down substantially in the tournament, and he has been a very consistent player while playing nearly every minute of the last three tournament games. Carter-Williams has chipped in a remarkable 13 steals in those 4 tournament games and for a player who experienced tragedy off the court (see house fire), he has channeled his emotions into positive results on the basketball court.

I know it is hard to believe, given how Trey Burke basically carried Michigan to a victory against Kansas on Friday night, but Trey Burke was sick this week. (Russ Smith was too. Seriously, what a bad time to get an illness.) And Burke’s shooting has been off in the tournament so far. He has shot just 42% on his twos and 26% on his threes in the first four games. But Burke is basically the only Michigan player whose efficiency has been lower in the tournament than in the regular season.

First, Mitch McGary has become a star, averaging a double-double per game. His 14 offensive rebounds in the tournament are the most of anyone in the Final Four. Meanwhile, Glen Robinson has chipped in 10 offensive rebounds of his own, which combined with Robinson’s 4 of 10 three point shooting has made Robinson an important offensive piece, despite his low shot volume. Tim Hardaway carried the team with his three point shooting against South Dakota St. in the opener. And Nik Stauskas carried the team with his three point shooting against Florida in the regional final. And just when you want to say this is a five player team, Spike Albrecht stepped in and got a key steal that ended the Gators most important second half run on Sunday.

With an offense like this clicking on all cylinders, it should be really fascinating to see Michigan match up with the long, dangerous Syracuse 2-3 zone.

Russ Smith is once again the highest volume shooter in the Final Four, but unlike last season, he has been unbelievably efficient. Smith also has 13 steals, which ties Syracuse’s Michael-Carter Williams for the most of any player in the Final Four. Oddly Michigan’s Mitch McGary is the only other player in the Final Four with double digit steals at this point.

Basically every Louisville player has been more efficient in the tournament than in the regular season except for Peyton Siva (and those guys at the end of the lineup card). But even if Siva has struggled some in the tournament, his scoring surge after Duke tied the game at 42 points on Sunday was still critical.

Louisville’s Kevin Ware’s ORtg was only 96 on the season, but he was playing the best basketball of his career prior to the devastating injury. He had a 114 ORtg in 4 tournament games. I can’t add anything about the injury that hasn’t already been said, but the sight of all those Louisville players hunched over on the court showed me how much love this team has for each other.