Northwestern Basketball scuffling
February 21st, 2017 at 10:37 PM ^
Michigan will figure out how to make it one.
February 21st, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^
Northwestern has always been a tough out for Michigan at Welsh-Ryan.
February 22nd, 2017 at 8:33 AM ^
[Fill in the blank] has always been a tough out for Michigan at [Fill in the other blank].
Fixed it.
February 22nd, 2017 at 10:58 AM ^
Yes, but the point is that many times they should not have been close.
February 21st, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
Knowing us we'll have the best defensive rebounding and boxing out game of the year only to go 1/20 from 3.
Always one thing or another with this team. >_<
February 22nd, 2017 at 8:47 AM ^
I expect that newly minted FT-against record to fall. The coin-flipping penis refs will insure NW gets the win.
At least figure skating ADMITS their "sport" is a subjective beauty contest run by judges.
February 21st, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^
if we can inbound the ball consistently, we'll win easily.
February 21st, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
February 22nd, 2017 at 6:59 AM ^
That first headline freaked me out until I saw that it was from 2015.
February 22nd, 2017 at 9:08 AM ^
seem to have to inbound the ball from odd angles and places on the court all of the time. At first I thought it was just random but now I think it is somehow a product of the sets we run on offense. At least two times per game a pass of ours gets deflected out of bounds literally right in the corner of the floor on our offensive end.
February 21st, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
Well, one thing is for certain - you can't score all of 18 points in the second half and expect to win a game. Your effective FG% in a game can't be south of 40% (35.71%) in a game and be an expected win, at least not easily.
February 21st, 2017 at 11:13 PM ^
I'm not counting the NW game as an easy one. What do we have in common with Northwestern? We both got blown out by Illinois this year.
February 21st, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
northwestern gonna northwestern
February 21st, 2017 at 11:41 PM ^
@ Indiana
Home vs UM
Home vs Purdue
Potentially, there is a decent chance NW loses all three games, which would leave them 9-9 in the B10, losers of its last four games, and 20-11 overall. And they've been a solid lock for the tourney for a while. Michigan is 9-9 against top 100 RPI teams, NW is 8-9 currently, with two losses to Illinois.
Looking at NW's resume, it would seems like we would need only two more wins if we wanted to feel safe, for comparison's sake.
February 22nd, 2017 at 12:28 AM ^
NU better win another game if they want to go to the tournament. Imagine if they lost out inclsuign the big ten tourney.
February 22nd, 2017 at 8:57 AM ^
You just know that's probably going to happen - and they'll lose a couple of them in overtime. Northwestern basketball can't have nice things.
February 22nd, 2017 at 6:50 AM ^
Didn't they lose one of their best players for the year to injury?
February 22nd, 2017 at 7:52 AM ^
They lost Rapolas Ivanauskas for the season and their center had hand surgery in December.
February 23rd, 2017 at 8:58 AM ^
Then...
No Hope
February 22nd, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^
Has just returned in the last couple of games but is just not the same.
I do think they need to win at least one of their next three to be in for certain. My son will be a wreck if they don't.
February 22nd, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^
1) really no content, just a hawt take opinion based on two games. 'Memba when Michigan beat Marquette and SMU? I 'memba, which seems to have gone well for us.
2) scuffling....? As to engage in a short, confused fight or struggle at close quarters...?
3) IBD, or at least this should be deleted, the board deserves better!
February 22nd, 2017 at 9:37 AM ^
just lose your game(s) v. michigan.
February 22nd, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
It seems like we play a lot of teams when they got beat when they shouldn't have and take out an extreme effort against us.
February 22nd, 2017 at 10:43 AM ^
Two things:
It will be a home game for Northwestern, and it may be one they really need to win to secure their first NCAA tournament berth.
One of their best players (Scottie Lindsey) has been out for several games, and is just returning to their lineup (I think against Rutgers this past weekend). He and the team are still readjusting to each other. Their game against Michigan will be his fourth back in the lineup, and he might be settling back in by that point.
February 22nd, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
Remember that double overtime disaster last time we played at Northwestern two years ago? There was about 4 different times I thought we had that win wrapped up. Then NU kept getting miracle 3 after miracle 3. Every desperation 3 they threw up went in, whether it was guarded or not. It was like NU was possessed by Wisconsin basketball.
Our God awful record on the road this year speaks for itself. I expect a game that goes down to the final seconds, again. With our luck, we'll be the one remaining team on NU's schedule where they get their act together.
February 22nd, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
Michigan was blown out by that same Illinois team. Nothing to see here.
February 22nd, 2017 at 1:26 PM ^
Yeah keep thinking that.
Knowing Michigan's luck, this is where Northwestern remembers its fighting for its tournament life and it puts together its best game of the year. Either that, or we'll have a similiar situation to two years ago where we think the game is wrapped up on 2-3 separate occasions and then Northwestern sinks desperation 3 after desperation 3 to win the game. And then we finally just run out of gas.