[NU Sports] B-Ball status

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> at the Big Ten tournament. If you'd had eight years to
> effect change,
> but didn't, how would your boss view you? 

Hmm, are we on Wall Street? :) Just kidding - BONUS PLEASE!

Other than being a proud Medilldo and immediately cheering a proper use of effect, I guess it depends how "change" is defined.

Has NU basketball changed this year? For the better? I think both are yes.
Has it changed enough to reach March Madness? Not yet, but I think that goal is closer now than it has been for a long, long time.

> 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.  

Exactly.

I will throw in one reference to my most hated three letters of last year, though, and wonder why this year's basketball team won't be considered "winners" -- in college football, they'd be bowl eligible already and the grand tradition of preserving these Weedwacker Bowl games to make teams feel good about a 6-6 season was one argument against a playoff, if I recall.

Sorry, just had to toss that in.:)

Lunch break over - back to work. GO CATS!!!
-SjT



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
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> 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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