Game thread for NU vs. Iowa

[GatoLouco]

Live view of the pep talk in the bad guy’s locker room.

Go cats!

 

[mshelton33]

Northwestern (15-5, 6-3 Big Ten) hits the road to make up their postponed matchup at Iowa (13-8, 5-5 Big Ten) at 8 p.m. on BTN.

 

[bringbacktherantboard]

I'll use this one.

 

[Hungry Jack]

Huck the Fawkeyes

 

[bringbacktherantboard]

I love those solid purple unis. They're so much better than those grey/"granite" unis.

 

[TheC]

On pace to hold them to 60. That would work.

 

[bjm989_rivals]

Like the start for the cats. Shooters hitting shots and have forced a couple turnovers. We need to quiet their big down.

 

[GatoLouco]

It would surprise me less to see Jordan Bohanon coming on the court impersonating another player than seeing big Matt being eaten alive by the Serbian.

 

[Dugan15]

TVH has been eating his Wheaties the last week!

 

[Titanium999]

Northwestern (15-5, 6-3 Big Ten) hits the road to make up their postponed matchup at Iowa (13-8, 5-5 Big Ten) at 8 p.m. on BTN.

Nice reverse layup by Audige

 

[ThatadultfromHolland]

TVH a bunch of nice defensive plays.

 

[Titanium999]

Martelli solid with that short toss

 

[mekCat]

Plus 2 offensive rebounds and a put back

 

[GatoLouco]

The discombobulation of Martinelli is a joy to see

 

[SDakaGordie]

The announcer is playing along, calling him Martelli.

 

[EagerFan]

They're definitely running the get fouled game plan. How lucky do they get with the refs?

 

[ThatadultfromHolland]

#2 has shown me some more today… looking forward to him having a year in the weight room and in the development system.

 

[GatoLouco]

Giving up unnecessary points on transition defense

 

[Titanium999]

Refs are biased! Audige and Boo are best players out there! Break em!

 

[Titanium999]

We are gonna break em with our leg speed!

 

[Figrating]

Not wilting.

 

[Figrating]

They ain't bad!!!!

 

[ballerog711]

Iowa making their layups. NU have rolled off. Playing hard so far.

Interesting g to see if MN can keep the pace this game.

Tough game with Iowa playing for Street.

 

[ThatadultfromHolland]

AUDIGE!!! Scared the dog with the pop it got out of me

 

[bjm989_rivals]

OMG Audige!!!

 

[GatoLouco]

So Franco gets a tech and they follow it by fabricating a foul over his son???

 

[mekCat]

We are blocking and altering shots

 

[CappyNU]

Don't need two game threads, consolidated here.

 

[ballerog711]

Great timeout. Couple of miscommunicationson defense.

 

[GatoLouco]

Don't need two game threads, consolidated here.

Wrassler needs his own thread! Duh

 

[GatoLouco]

TV mauled under the basket leads to an and 1 on the other side

 

[ballerog711]

Gotta get Berry more touches

 

[mekCat]

Good news - we're tied while Boo is 1-5 from the field. Good news - Murray and Rebaca each with 2 could. Bad news - Murray looks to be out of his 3pt shooting slump

 

[ballerog711]

Beran has to do more on offense as well. NU playing 3 on 5 on offense. Hard to win that way.

Had one nice cut for a layup and that's it

 

[rwhitney014]

We are gonna need to score in the second half, both for the obvious reason and for the fact that Iowa is the embodiment of the Hubert Davis "missed shots are turnovers" theory. We cannot let them get out on the break.

HUGE from Martinelli. Huge. What a revelation. Need more from the big boys, though. Regardless, my fear of a 2022 BTT reprise doesn't appear to be in the cards. Let's go win.

 

[Hungry Jack]

The easy transition scores for Iowa are a bummer

 

[Figrating]

Well, NU has played even w the mf cowhawks. The cowhawks whole game is to just hit alotta treys. Somebody has gotta be on superduperman every f'g second. NU stops superduperman and they win.

 

[freewillie07]

If you told me Iowa would be shooting 58% from the field and 50% from deep, while Boo was 1-for-5 from the floor, I would not say we’d be tied at halftime.

It is what it is. A very evenly matched game between two teams that won’t back down.

Iowa has homecourt so NU is going to need to go into the final minutes with a lead, make shots and get stops.

Let’s get it done.

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

Our coach did their coach a nice favor by sitting Nicholson because Rebraca was in foul trouble.

 

[SimpsonElmwood]

I f-ing hate Iowa.