[NU Sports] All that talk p.o.'d the selection committee

[Alan Abrahamson]

Personally -- I think we got what we deserved.

If we had beaten Minnesota, this might have all been moot.

Woulda coulda shoulda etc.

Everyone will recall I had said a few posts back that we were not going to
win the NIT. I bring this up again not out of any sense of "I told you so."
It was just obvious.

We had weaknesses that were glaringly evident. Hard to acknowledge but
let's face facts. We couldn't rebound. We often couldn't shoot the front
end of 1-and-1s and, as I pointed out in an off-the-list note tonight to a
list friend, the last I looked, you win basketball games by scoring points.
Our lack of height was a defensive liability to the max. Our lack of depth
was brutal.

An athletic team like Washington -- which you can see by the way they turn
the ball over is still a year away from making the NCAA -- naturally proved
a deadly match-up for this edition of the Northwestern men's basketball
team.

I feel badly for Shurna. Arguably the best player in NU basketball history
and he didn't get to go to the tournament. That is a major disappointment.

I have said before that I believe Carmody must go. We need new energy and
new direction.

If Jim Phillips believes Carmody stays, I absolutely will continue to
support the coach and the program. But -- I believe Bill has had his turn
to show what he can do, and taken the program as far as he can take it.
It's time for someone new.









On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Scott Zeller, M.D. <scottzel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Agreed. This game might have made sense in the third round of the NIT, but
> NU should have been a higher seed, and not have to play against the team
> that may have been the biggest slight by the NCAA tourney in the second
> round on their home floor.
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Roy S. Lamberton
> <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>wrote:
>
> > And NU wound up in one tough bracket in the NIT....
> >
> > So while the no name teams are knocking off the #2's, we're playing a
> team
> > that seems to
> > be about 3 inches taller all around.
> >
> > No joy so far, altho we did have a nice run in the 1st half. Washington
> > just came roaring
> > back.
> >
> > rsl
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