[NU Sports] 'CATS WIN IN SWAMP

[NEONRye at aol.com]

I am happy to report that NU beat Seton Hall today at Continental Arena in  
The Meadowlands by a 44-42 score, as Mohamed Hachad  connected on a backdoor 
layup with 3.3 seconds left in a game that I, and many  Alumni from NY, NJ and 
PA attended.  The 'Cats went down by a 13-2 score  early in the contest, and I 
must admit, it looked like it was going to be a very  long afternoon for my 
16-year-old son and me, but we rallied with some tough  defense.  The game 
itself was ragged, and probably set back the game of  basketball to the era of 
James Naismith.   The 'Cats cannot rebound at  all, and Seton Hall was just awful 
with the ball.  I lost track of how many  turnovers they had--some were caused 
by the men in purple, many were unforced  errors.
 
We had a good NU contingent on hand, and there were  a lot of happy faces 
walking out when we pulled out the win.  I sat next to  Charlie McKenna, 
ex-sportwriter for NEWSDAY and other papers, including THE  DAILY NORTHWESTERN, and we 
commiserated over how weak our team looks to  be.   When Vedran went out with 
fouI trouble with about 10 minutes to  go, it looked like curtains, but we 
hung around and did just enough to  prevail.
 
don't know how many other road wins we will have as  we move into conference 
play, so let's savor this one.
 
Paul Levinson