[NU Sports] B-Ball status

[Dennis W. Brandt]

<Personally, I've been more excited about (and had more fun watching)
this basketball season than any in about 15 years

This may be the best team we've had in the last fifteen years, and that is a 
sad commentary on NU basketball.  Until we get a good inside presence that 
can prevent other teams from getting two and three shots and get some 
put-backs ourselves, we will never be a winning basketball program.  In the 
first eleven Big Ten games we have only 69 offensive boards to 136 for our 
opponents, and I dare say most of ours were long rebounds.  Defensively it's 
206 - 280.  If we got half the rebounds and changed nothing else, we would 
be in the race for the Big 10 championship.