[NU Sports] Basketball

[Scott Zeller]

Before you all freak out too much about the "unbelievable" loss in the
b-ball game to a program which apparently is perceived to be somewhere below
DeVry, today's USA Today's Sagarin Rankings (from before last night) had
Robert Morris ranked at #163 and Northwestern ranked at #156. Wow -- we lost
to an equivalently ranked team (albeit an NAIA team) in a meaningless
exhibition, when our coach was free to experiment with new wrinkles, and try
out five new kids in their first-ever college game. Release the hounds.

Scott Zeller MD
Med '86



On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Eric West <e-west at northwestern.edu> wrote:

>
> Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
>
>> <But I'm not ready to write off the season on the basis of the first
>> exhibition game.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting we write them off.  I am suggesting that if we are to
>> be competitive in the Big 10, we can't be losing to the likes of Robert
>> Morris.
>>
>
> Well, that's kind of a truism. It's like saying if we want to be
> competitive in Big Ten football, we can't be losing to the likes of Indiana.
> It's true, and yet....
>
> Now, I've no evidence that our hoops team will be anything special this
> year, but it was their first game together, it was an exhibition, and it was
> against the good Robert Morris and not the bad one. One game hardly means
> that much, especially in basketball. No doubt they know they need to
> improve; let's see what the season actually brings.
>
>
> Eric West
> e-west at northwestern.edu
>
>
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