Northwestern Wildcats vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers Game Thread

As I’m watching the last 3 minutes, is it me, or does the Illini offense lack any sense of urgency? It seems like they’re awful casual in setting their screens. I didn’t watch the whole game, but it seems like when Wisky has the ball, they cut hard and screen with intention.

On the other hand, it may just be my natural bias on Illinois basketball: talented individuals that haven’t jelled yet.

can we switch yet?

C’mon Cats. Could sure use a welcome back win today.

By the way, BTN2Go is a pretty sweet app. Even though my only use of it was watching Big Red rain threes on us. Nevertheless, still pretty cool app. Other weird fact — they sure love their ACC basketball down there. That got alot of run on their version of ESPN2.

BS shot goes in

We gotta keep attacking though.

No kraken yet?

playing reallllyyyy bad right now

no rolls after attacking the rim, and they’re making shots.

that we drew 2 fouls, and that we’re only down 7.

I’m not worried yet, cause we’re getting good looks. We need to keep defensive intensity up though. looks like the refs are (say it with me) “lettin ’em play”

NU just can’t win on the road. Season over.

/holding back tears

When we are 0-12 and down 11-0???

1-15!!!

Seems odd — but I know we can put up points. So many tough rolls already.

I am concerned that we don’t have much left on the bench. We only got Froo and Luka, right?

Bring out the kraken.

Only 2 more to the bonus.

/grasping at straws.

drew misses both…wtf

We miss the free throws

Anything to change up the mojo. Oy.

Can’t believe that

Wow. Absolutely terrible.

just couldnt take it anymore

… from the jump. And it is relevant to the offense.

Is some defensive dogging it.

I would take that gladly.

I didn’t know our guys would be so affected by JoePa’s death.

-Outscored 84-49
-Shot 16-58 (27.5%) from the floor
-Shot 5-23 (21.7%) from 3
-Shot 12-21 (57%) from the free throw line
-Outrebounded 42-28
-14 turnovers

This game began a crucial three-game stretch against beatable teams. This is an embarrassment. Everyone associated with this program—from coaches, to players, to support staff, to administrators—needs to be called out.

and you’ll have a stew goin’ on.

Since the game when he scored 20, he’s been horrible.

That’s focus and effort.

I think we’ve picked up 4 fouls in the 16-12 min segment and its not even half over yet.

Wow.

And don’t drive. We are supposed to be the smartest team in the conference?

after he hesitated. To me, he was looking to drive. I was surprised he didn’t launch.

We are almost in this

Contemplating life as an assistant at Ohio Wesleyan.

Was the sound of our bubble bursting. Again.

May the who-is-our-next-coach discussion begin …

Shurna did everything he could do out there. But we had “Bad Drew” today. Marco gave us some scoring off the bench. Sobo and Hearn had bad days defensively today.

We had a ton of bad rolls. We tipped a bunch of balls in the second half, and they recovered. We’ve played better games.

The truth is — we can still win any game on our sked. But you’re gonna need good drew and shurna to even have a chance.