[NU Sports] B-Ball status

[Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)]

Those statistics underscore the problem.
 Yes, this team is better than teams in past years.
 Bottom line: so what? Still no NCAA invite this year, absent a miracle
at the Big Ten tournament. If you'd had eight years to effect change,
but didn't, how would your boss view you? 
 Not feelng picked on, by the way, and I think we can have a vigorous,
civil debate about the team and Carmody with the idea that we all want
the same thing: winners on the court, graduates in the classroom, young
men who represent themselves, their families and the university with
distinction all-around.  
  

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:13 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] B-Ball status

<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. 

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