[NU Sports] Northwestern State

[Michael Vance]

Paul-

I think it was apparent, after watching how we played against PSU three 
times, that the matchup was just horrendous against PSU.  Sometimes 
basketball comes down to matchups of individual personnel and matchups 
of offensive style vs. defensive style.  I think that the matchups were 
so disadvantageous against PSU that if we played them ten times and then 
played any other team in the league ten times, we'd probably get more 
wins out of the latter.

Maybe I'm just making excuses, but I don't really see any other explanation.

-Michael

NEONRye at aol.com wrote:
> Mark,
> As usual, and I've known you a long time, you may good, cogent points,  
> especially about GW.  But I am just not convinced that we are in position  to go to 
> the next level.  We never string together long win streaks.   The perfect 
> example was when we were 2-0 (2 road wins) to start the Big 10  season and came 
> home to lose to Penn State.  That was just crushing.   We finally had a chance 
> to build some momentum and perhaps finish with a record  worthy of NCAA 
> consideration, but we crashed and burned (for the first, but not  last, time vs. 
> Penn State).  If we can't beat the lower echelon hoops teams  in our conference 
> at home with a chance to go 3-0, when are we ever going to  make the quantum 
> leap necessary to get to the "Dance"?
>  
> Paul Levinson
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