[NU Sports] Cats Win!

[Michael Vance]

Dennis, while you won't get any argument from me on the details of your 
response, I prefer to see the glass half-full whereas, in keeping with 
recent patterns, you're more of a half-empty guy.  Your view may even be 
the more realistic of the two, but a conference road win is a good win, 
no matter the score.  The conference sked has not been kind to the 'Cats 
so far, with only a talented-but-schizophrenic Michigan team and one of 
the top five teams in the country at home so far.  Unfortunately, two of 
the next three aren't much better, with Wisconsin and OSU again, but at 
least they're at home and at least we know that we can beat Minny.

Speaking of the fact that we play the Gophers again so soon, does it 
seem to anyone else that a lot of the home-and-home series in the 
conference are unusually close together this year?  Michigan and Purdue 
played in West Lafayette and Ann Arbor a week apart.  We face OSU and 
Minny in four straight games, we play our two games against Purdue a 
week apart at the end of the season.  PSU has their Wisconsin games a 10 
days apart and their two OSU games a week apart.  I haven't looked at 
everyone's schedule, nor have I looked at past schedules, but it just 
seems to me that it's happening a lot this year.  Is this a new 
scheduling method that the conference is experimenting with or is it a 
one-year fluke?

-Michael

Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
> I hate to be the wet blanket, but this was not a good win.  It was a 
> pleasant win, but they looked good only because they were playing a 
> very bad Div 1A basketball team.  The Cats' three-point shooting was 
> dreadful; otherwise they would have won by 30 or more.  At one point 
> late both teams were 3 for 19 from beyond the arc.  That ain't a gonna 
> cut it.  No, the margain of victory does not matter per se, but the 
> rest of the league won't be as inept as Minnesota.
>
> Having said that, Kevin Coble is a surprisingly good basketball 
> player, but he's got to add some serious muscle to that 6' 8", 190 lb. 
> frame.  We still need a big center, a slashing forward or point guard, 
> better three-point shooters, and enough depth to go at least nine deep 
> from the bench.
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