Second-half thread for Radford vs. NU
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NU fans can be really arrogant. Radford is a Virginia state university with 10,000 students. One of the sports they focus on is basketball. Heck, what else are you going to do in the middle of winter in southwest Virginia? They won their conference last year. They have a great recruiting area and they take basketball seriously.
How dare we? Liberty and Georgia Southern are juggernauts, and little ol' B1G team Northwestern shouldn't expect to beat the powerhouse Radford. Hell, we should be shaking about our next game against Norfolk State.
This is the shot chart - note that there is an option to check a box "Heat Map" Click at your own risk....
https://nusports.com/sidearmstats/mbball/shot-chart
https://nusports.com/sidearmstats/mbball/shot-chart
You're talking about Radford (had no idea what state it's in) and a B1G university. I hope this post was made in jest.
Every good B Ball team has at a couple of pit bulls on the team that hate to lose and bring the other guys along with them. Who is the dog on this team?
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Radford showed me nothing to believe they would be a competitive team in the B1G. Unfortunately neither did NU.
What? Did I miss the sarcasm font? I said this is a big game for Radford and our guys clearly don’t take a school from a small conference seriously. How is that a fan being arrogant? If anything it is a criticism of how NU prepares for teams and an indictment of the staff/players.
The size if the school has zero to do with anything unless you are saying Illinois State should have beat NU in football because they are over twice NU’s enrollment.
1999-2000 was my sophomore season. I spent so much time with thoughts like this. (“If we get threes and stops on the next three possessions, then we’ll have a chance to make a run.”)
Many small schools have excellent programs that NU and many Big Ten schools can only envy. It only takes a handful of players and a basketball court to compete as opposed to 100,000 seat football stadiums. Just because fans don't know what is happening outside the confines of the Big Ten doesn't mean other teams don't know how to play. I don't know one way or the other whether Radford is good this year, but I do know it is a pretty big school that has had some success in the past. I don't think NU has much to shout about in that regard. Saying this as a die-hard, very long time fan.
How do you figure they’re good this year? They lost to a very mediocre Liberty and Georgia Southern. Where do you get that they’re good from?
Ok, I was the fan bemoaning the preparation for a smaller conference school. I also said Radford would win the majority of games played in a 10 game set,
Like most sports, confidence, determination and playing a unit beats all but the most talented teams.
Radford looked like an actual basketball team that ran an offense. We look like a collection of misfits who just met during warmups.
Looks like he cares at least. His shot selection isn’t very good, but that seems to be the Chris Collins offense- total randomness.