[NU Sports] Loss #1

[Weinbaum, Willie]

Amen!  NU big men battled and will have better days - not every team presents the challenge Tisdale does and the Cats hung tough and learned.  But Thompson's health is crucial - hoping his late injury isn't one that carries over.

Lot of purple at snowy NYC's LaGuardia Airport for the flight to Tampa (hoping it won't be delayed).  Visibility awful as are road conditions (a car skidded into mine on way here). 

Hail to purple...Go Cats!

Willie 

>From Blackberry - please excuse typos

W. Weinbaum
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Sent: Thu Dec 31 08:53:50 2009Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Loss #1

Tisdale was the man.  I agree with you that NU is going to struggle when a team has a 7-1 center who goes 11-14 from the floor and 9-11 at the free throw line.  When you look at the rest of the stats, though, NU was tough on the offensive boards and was 11-15 from the line.

Where the game was lost, however was at the three point arc in the second half.  NU was 11-23 in the first half and 4-17 in the second half.  NU just went cold from the floor and couldn't really get anything going to the basket until late in the game, so it was even more impressive that they hung in there and took the game to overtime.  They were able to do that by taking care of the ball and forcing a lot of Illini mistakes.

This team is the real deal and has the best chance of any team in recent memory to make the big dance, so let's all enjoy the ride.

Jeff




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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Wed 12/30/2009 11:35 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Loss #1



We played pretty well tonight.  Shurna was very good, and Thompson was his
usual solid self.  Crawford is the real deal and may be outstanding once he
shakes off froshitis.  Add the traditional 1 under the "L" column for an NU
Big Ten opener.  We lost because Illinois has a center, and we don't.  We
could have a lot of these come-up-short type games this season and will win
a few of them.

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