[NU Sports] basketball futility

[Abrahamson, Alan]

 This sentence from this morning's Tribune says it all:
 "Under Carmody, the Wildcats' 29-31 record the last two seasons is their best two-year stretch since Rich Falk's teams went 32-36, including an NIT berth, from 1982 to '84."
 Just to pile on, this sentence, from later in the story: "Northwestern is beginning its second century of basketball, still looking for its first NCAA tourney berth."
 Ugh.
 Yech.
 Ptooey.
 It is abominable that we have been so bad, and for so long.  
 What's fair for the goose, etc.: I do not think it the least bit unreasonable to hold the men's basketball team to the same expectation as the fb team. (In this case, however, I mean the bb version of eight or nine wins -- like, 20. I don't literally mean eight or nine!)
 I readily, happily concede that the team seems to be getting better under Carmody.
 Let me just say, however, that I expect them to make the NCAA tourney. It's about time. And this is the team -- with seven seniors.
 I applaud the wins over Leigh and Charlotte. But losing to Wilmington?