Game Thread: Michigan vs. Northwestern

[mshelton33]

Northwestern (18-8, 9-6 Big Ten) hosts Michigan (8-18, 3-12 Big Ten) tonight at 8 pm at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The game will air on FS1.

Boo Buie is five points away from Northwestern's all-time scoring record!

 

[Username Not Available]

18 minutes before game time the students are filling up but the rest of the seats are pretty empty.

 

[PURPLECAT88]

Not a lot of Michigan colors in the crowd… other than my wife.

 

[UpsetAlert]

18 minutes before game time the students are filling up but the rest of the seats are pretty empty.

Filling up though. Parking was a shitshow

 

[DaCat]

Seems like it should be a crazy environment!

 

[CatManTrue]

Not a lot of Michigan colors in the crowd… other than my wife.

Here’s one in purple for you. Go Cats!

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Angry face

 

[Username Not Available]

Cats area little jittery and need to settle down. Nice assist from Mullins to Hunger.

 

[SmellyCat]

Nice to see Hunger dunk one. Good pass from Mullins.

 

[TheC]

Missing every thing over 1 foot

 

[TheC]

Anyone who thought we were going to blow out Michigan must be a brand new NU fan

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Matt Nicholson... dish?

 

[SmellyCat]

Nicholson passing and rebounding well. Let's see this team start shooting well though!

[well, he missed one easy offensive rebound, but still, three rebounds already]

 

[SmellyCat]

Barnhizer 9-for-39 last three games. 0-for-3 tonight.

 

[BosCat]

 

[Hungry Jack]

Slow start but it’s gonna start to happen for us

 

[SmellyCat]

They couldn't put a ghostly John Shurna in the tweet?

Seriously, way to go Boo!

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

No way Michigan keeps shooting like this for the rest of the game (congrats Boo)

 

[NUcats92]

Not if we keep leaving wide-open 3pt shooters

 

[SmellyCat]

Slow start but it’s gonna start to happen for us

Eventually these Michigan guys who never make threes will stop making threes.

Let's hope Langborg is ok.

 

[Username Not Available]

Looks Like Ryan left with a knee injury.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Looks Like Ryan left with a knee injury.

He's back... and so is the outside shooting

 

[Username Not Available]

And he’s back.

 

[SmellyCat]

Barnhizer 9-for-39 last three games. 0-for-3 tonight.

I wish I'd motivated him a few games ago. Three straight threes and a super-athletic block.

 

[PURPLECAT88]

Ryan is back. Seems fine.

 

[SmellyCat]

Martinelli has five offensive boards already. Good thing he tipped one of those in, but he's keeping NU in it otherwise.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

All things considered pretty damn gross start on both sides and hot shooting a bad Michigan team isn't usually capable of... and still being up 3 feels not too damn bad.

 

[GatoLouco]

A’right, we played like . So many mistakes on defense. Still up. Let’s grab this.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Nick Martinelli turning Northwestern into an offensive rebounding powerhouse is weirding me out

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

If we get a comfortable lead early in the 2nd half I'd put Langborg on ice and let Mullins soak up some minutes

 

[SmellyCat]

I really enjoy Stephen Bardo, and I have to say I laughed that he remembered full well that Dukes of Hazzard was on Friday nights.

And after saying Shannon was playing "downhill" about 20 times last night, he's kept that description down to I think only one instance tonight.

 

[TheC]

Can’t ease up.

 

[Username Not Available]

Yeah, I could see all the cats had jitters and tried way too hard at the start. They settled down by the end tho, so keep it up for the second half please.

 

[NU Houston]

The old NBA on NBC music still weirds me out a bit on FS1. I'm looking for Hakeem, Barkley and MJ out there.

 

[SmellyCat]

The old NBA on NBC music still weirds me out a bit on FS1. I'm looking for Hakeem, Barkley and MJ out there.

And the Phoenix gorilla dunking.

 

[PURPLECAT88]

We’re killing them in every area except shooting percentage. Keep it up, and we’ll win going away.

 

[SmellyCat]

Hunger playing better tonight but why take Nicholson out so early?

 

[Username Not Available]

Refs swallowed their whistles until they got to the tv timeout.

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

Burnett having the shooting performance of his career

 

[TheC]

When a bad team keeps hitting their threes, scary things can happen