[NU Sports] B-Ball status

[dave bradley]

Agree, Alan,  on your objectives 100%: winners on the court, graduates in the classroom, young men who represent themselves, their families and the university with distinction all-around.  Many teams/athletes don't achieve more than the first.

As to this year, the 'Cats have played some great games, and great portions of games, being competitive in most - other than the blowout at Wisconsin.  While many on this list have suggested they are T-material, I never set the bar that high this season,with all the youth. Other than a nice career cap for Moore, and finally getting off the scheid with regards to the T, I would rather see the 'Cats do NIT - play 1-2 of those games at home, get a couple (or more - look at what last years OSU team did in NIT) wins, gain some post-season experience, etc. rather than go to T as 11-12 or lower seed and potentially getting thumped at neutral site in first round.  Like  many have  noted, this is not necessarily a peak season and with someone (or two) filling Moore's shoes, they should get past these 1-2 point losses and 10-15 point collapses next year, and go into the Big 10 T and the other T with a better, stronger outlook.

I'm probably too for the rest of you....its probably a result of being a long-time fan of some other teams that rarely make the big stage (Browns and Cubs....<sigh>...)



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--- Alan.Abrahamson at nbcsports.com wrote:

From: "Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)" <Alan.Abrahamson at nbcsports.com>
To: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>, <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Cc:
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] B-Ball status
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:57:40 -0500

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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