[NU Sports] telling Carmody postgame quote

[Alan Abrahamson]

Eric's points are well-taken.

At the same time, our RPI is atrocious and if we are to make the tournament
at some point we have to win one or more of these games.

I think the sense of dismay (candidly, I feel it) stems from the Wisconsin
beat-down. It's no big deal to lose on the road to ranked teams. But the
Wisconsin loss is another matter. This was a game we all expected to be a
statement game. Indeed, it was a statement. A home loss by 32. That is a
statement, and almost always that statement says loudly and clearly: not
ready for prime time.

Would love to be proven wrong, believe me.



On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Eric West <e-west at northwestern.edu> wrote:

> On 1/27/2011 10:13 AM, Beamsley, Jeff wrote:
>
>> My theory is that this team had a lot of momentum at the start of the year
>> because they saw the possibility that they might be the group that gets NU
>> to the NCAA tourney.
>>
>> Shurna's nagging injury put that goal in jeopardy.  The failure of the
>> rest of the team to step up has since put that goal out of reach.
>>
>
>
> I still think the jury is out on this season. Every Big Ten loss has been
> to a currently ranked team (do people realize that?), and even St. John's
> has been on the positive side of the tourney bubble. We don't have a quality
> win, and the chances to get one are running out, but it's still conceivable.
> All we really need is one (two would certainly clinch it).
>
> If we ever actually lose to an unranked opponent, that will be one thing.
> There will certainly be no room for error in that five-game stretch. But
> people seem to forget that how we fare against Ohio State or Wisconsin has
> nothing to do with whether we eventually make the tournament. Nothing has
> been decided yet; let's hope the team doesn't give up the way the fans have
> seemed to.
>
> Eric West
> e-west at northwestern.edu
>
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