[NU Sports] Not the refs

[Dennis W. Brandt]

The guys in the purple shirts, not the zebra shirts, lost this game.  The 
WSU defense had some success making Juice a marked man.  Although he 
responded well, there were turnovers and bad shots as a result, and Shurna 
arriving with icicles on his finger tips was a mortal blow.  Then there was 
a play near the end of the first half that, at the time it happened, I said 
to myself (fortunately my wife was in bed and could not hear me talking to 
myself - as if that should matter after 41 years), "That play is going to 
cost us the game."  (Been there before, don't you know.)  Capocci, I think 
it was, was fouled on a three-point attempt that rattled around the rim 
before bouncing out.  Bad luck, but he still has three free throws coming. 
He made one.  He makes two, we win, and the rest of the team didn't shoot 
100% at the stripe either.  And while we did get an unusually high 
percentage of rebounds for us, the inside defense was porous as always.  It 
put us in an early 14-point hole, and we only outscored them by 14 from 
there through the end of regulation.

Perhaps those returnering next season got a lot out of this experience. 
It's a shame that Cobb couldn't have had more playing time.