[NU Sports] We lost to crappy Indiana

[Jim Bendat]

Chuck's argument is compelling. These stats show that, in the 72 years since the NCAA tournament began, we have compiled a conference record better than two games over .500 just twice -- and not once since 1946. Other than Don Williams (sorry, Don!), how many of us were even born yet? This season did indeed turn out to be a disappointment - unless, of course, we win the Big Ten Tournament. I'm not holding my breath.

As for next year -- no excuses. Expect victory.

Jim B.


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>From: cherron604 at aol.com
>Sent: Mar 8, 2010 11:45 AM
>To: sjtruog at yahoo.com, nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] We lost to crappy Indiana
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>We have to quit labelling this 'a succesful season'
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>We play in the Big Ten - success would imply finishing above .500 in the league
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>We haven't done that this year.  We have finished in 7th place, at 7-11
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>There have been 3 recent seasons of 7th place or better - Falk finished 7th in 84, Carmody finished 7th in 02 and 5th in 04.
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>Many might argue that the minimum standard for 'success' should be over .500 in the league:
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>Since the era of the NCAA tournament:
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>1940 - 4th place  7-5
>1943 - 3rd place  7-5
>1944 - 4th place  8-4
>1946 - 3rd place  8-4
>1958 - 4th place  8-6
>1959 - 2nd place 8-6
>1960 - 3rd place  8-6
>1968 - 4th place  8-6
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>These are the minimum standard for a succesful season - not four games under .500, like this season.  We are a member of the Big Ten conference, we should at a minimum win more conference games than we lose, to call a season a 'success'.  By that fairly low bar, we won a lot of non-conference games this year, but it can't be labelled a success.
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>Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Sent: Sun, Mar 7, 2010 1:07 am
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] We lost to crappy Indiana
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>You kinda wonder what the situation would have been had our schedule been the 
>everse -- play hot and get on a roll early and then be in the limelight with 
>he showcase games at the end. Oh well.
>Penn State appears to be one of those cases where they just have our number. 
>ike Iowa with PSU in football.
>Losing at IU and Iowa hurts, but road games are tough and Crean will have the 
>oosiers back in a hurry.
>But when you put all that together, it's a bummer of an ending to the season ... 
>specially after getting our hopes up ... and that after a horrible start with 
>oble out.
>It'd be nice if the roller coaster continued and went up again with a nice NIT 
>un to set up for next year.
>And once the initial disappointment wears away and we all look back, this is one 
>f the most successful hoops seasons in NU history -- and the future looks 
>right in Evanston.
>GO CATS!!!
>SjT
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