Sunday is the biggest game at WRA since 2017

[lou v]

No. 1 Purdue and potential national player of the year Zach Edey are town on Sunday to play the Cats, who are 17-7 (8-5 Big Ten) and fighting for an NCAA berth. This is the biggest game in Evanston since...take your pick: the Tap-to-Pardon Michigan game in 2017, or the final game at Welsh-Ryan against the Boilers just a couple days later. Personally, I think it was Purdue, even though NU lost. Jim Nantz, Grant Hill and Bill Raftery were in the house and it was the national CBS game. That place was deafening before the game even started.

And if you haven't seen it yet, NU is asking fans to wear black. Smart move. You won't be able to spot all of the Purdue fans in the stands. You know there will be a ton.

 

[mickbula]

Big matt N will need to play the game of his life if we are to have a close game/possible win imo. MN...please score 20+ and hold Edey to less than his season average. Chase and boo will have to match purdue's outside shooting and to win- outshoot them. Purdue is beatable. But we are going to need multiple peak experiences insofar as our players go.

 

[its_the_sauce]

And I'll be in Vegas......

 

[StreamCat]

No. 1 Purdue and potential national player of the year Zach Edey are town on Sunday to play the Cats, who are 17-7 (8-5 Big Ten) and fighting for an NCAA berth. This is the biggest game in Evanston since...take your pick: the Tap-to-Pardon Michigan game in 2017, or the final game at Welsh-Ryan against the Boilers just a couple days later. Personally, I think it was Purdue, even though NU lost. Jim Nantz, Grant Hill and Bill Raftery were in the house and it was the national CBS game. That place was deafening before the game even started.

And if you haven't seen it yet, NU is asking fans to wear black. Smart move. You won't be able to spot all of the Purdue fans in the stands. You know there will be a ton.

Good. Because black is slimming.

 

[SmellyCat]

I remember NU’s game against Purdue in ‘94. Both teams undefeated, Purdue led by Glenn Robinson, who may have been the best college basketball player I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. in my mind, the best player in the country was triple-teamed when he hit the game winner. Let’s make sure he misses tomorrow.

tomorrows game is the biggest since then.

 

[NJCat]

Glenn Robinson, who may have been the best college basketball player I’ve ever seen with my own eyes

Out of curiosity, who is the best college basketball player you have seen with someone else's eyes?

 

[Hungry Jack]

I remember NU’s game against Purdue in ‘94. Both teams undefeated, Purdue led by Glenn Robinson, who may have been the best college basketball player I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. in my mind, the best player in the country was triple-teamed when he hit the game winner. Let’s make sure he misses tomorrow.

tomorrows game is the biggest since then.

I was as that game. Won’t forget it.

 

[Catreporter]

Cats were unbeaten (albeit against a very weak December schedule) and that was the Big Ten opener. Led by a point in the final seconds and then lost sending them into a nine game tailspin that led to the infamous "walk on the wild side" by Coach Ricky Byrdsong. Team recovered to finish one game over .500 and go to the NIT where they beat DePaul, but then lost a heartbreaker to Xavier.

 

[SmellyCat]

Out of curiosity, who is the best college basketball player you have seen with someone else's eyes?

That would be Kris Weshinskey of Michigan State during a brief period after a fluke accident before I regained my original eyes.

(I meant at a game I attended, rather than watching on tv, but you probably knew that).

1994 was a crazy year for NU hoops, that's for sure.

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

Out of curiosity, who is the best college basketball player you have seen with someone else's eyes?

Craig Moore

 

[4IUSox2]

‘94 PU at NU also had a big snow storm for fans to navigate that night too. The wife and I lived nearby Welsh-Ryan at the time. We were to have PU friends coming up for dinner and the game. They never made it due to the weather/roads from NW Indiana to Evanston.

Good luck today!! Not so much on Wednesday when I’m there though.