Two of my favorite basketball teams this year are playing tonight, Northwestern (up 9 with 3:30 to play) and Marquette (down 3 in the 1st half…I’m fully going to watch NU and catch th Warriors in the 2nd half). Northwestern probably wont be in the tournament, but if they were they would be a team no one would want to play. Like Princeton in the 90’s, but more athletic and battle tested. They beat #7 Michigan State, #17 Minnesota, and have a chance to beat #20 Purdue. Plus they blew a game against Illinois. Which showed up their Achilles heel. They do not handle the ball well enough to survive athletic pressure in close games.
Cobel picks up his dribble at the top of the key, looks and looks, and drains a long 2.
People nationally have been ripping the Big Ten, looking at 40 point totals, and thinking the Big Ten is no good. What they are forgetting was the Big Tens pre-conference record. It seems to me a case where The Big Ten Pounds each other into submission, but I think come tournament time they will do pretty well. Purdue, I like their coach, I do not think will do as well they’ve seemed over rated all season long.
NU misses the front end of a 1-1. Just terrible. Up 3 with 32 seconds, Purdue misses the front end of 2, hits the second. NU up 2.
Long pass to half court, Cobel volly’s it forwards to a teammate who lays it in.
My wife wants to take the dogs and kids on a walk. 14.2 seconds!
My daughter wants to sit on my lap! “No. no.no.no.no.no.no” “Yes.yes.yes.yes.yes.” 13.8 seconds. NU up 6.
Purdue nails a three from the corner, NU up 3.
Thompson bounces in his first FT, NU up 4. Up 5.
Final score NU 64 Purdue 61.
Over to Marquette.
Brandon Burke huge hanging high off the glass prayer for a chance at a 3 point play to tie the game with 18min to go. Whoops, wide open 3 for Pitt. McNeal ties it. Mathews cost to cost, finishes with left hand and a chance for the old fashioned 3. A great minute of Marquette basketball. It looks like they might pull off the upset.
But McNeal takes 2 bad three’s and Marquette gets three happy. They’ve done this in the last two games as well, gone cold from three, and given up big runs by other teams. Tonights run is dismal, back breaking. In the blink of an eye Pitt is up by 15 and the game is over.
I want to make a case for Northwestern as a tournament team, they are 9-9 in the Big Ten, have wins over Florida State, Minn, MSU, Purdue, OSU, At least 4 and probably all of those teams are gonna Dance. I know, in that way you just know things, that if in the tourney, they'd win at least one game.
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