Why no scores tonight?
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For sure. First time our guys will bang against bodies at least (probably more so) stronger than theirs.
Illinois (albeit short handed) lost to Marquette. MU is picked to be at the bottom of the Big East. I knew Curbelo could not hit a 3. But this season is raising questions if he can shoot at all.
Wisconsin lost to Providence, at home. PC is picked to mid tier Big East with some chances at a bubble.
Penn State got destroyed by mighty UMass.
Just took a look at the Wisconsin roster. Cats have a better team. KenPom has NU at 42 and UW at 45, and showing our projected B1G record at 10-10.
That's the worst looking Wisconsin team since Dick Bennett turned the program around. Davidson scored almost half their points. Their fountain of great big men must have finally dried up.
Wisconsin will not be good this year. However, Illinois will be very good. Curbelo was God awful and they didn’t have Kofi. An early loss for a team like this may be a blessing in disguise.
I didn't watch the WI game, but from the box score I see 47 bench minutes scoring six points. That's not a good look. otoh, they also had 12 rebounds with only 1 TO and 6 fouls. So I guess that isn't a terrible composite player.
Edit: on the Illini game, my slo mo is pretty bad, and it really looks to me like the MU kid kicked the ball he 'stole'.
Edit: on the Illini game, my slo mo is pretty bad, and it really looks to me like the MU kid kicked the ball he 'stole'.
I thought Providence looked pretty solid and Watson down low will be tough for us to contend with. Bynum and Reeves up top were good, too. The Friars defended and rebounded at a high level. Will be a good challenge.
Feels like one of those games that will come down to the simple question of whether NU can make tough shots, or if a dry spell dooms them.
Providence best Wisconsin and is almost certainly better than at least Penn State and Nebraska, and probably Rutgers too, so it will be a good barometer of where NU stands in the conference pecking order.
I didn't see the play, but for a kicked ball to be called, there has to be some intent to use the leg to your advantage. If it inadvertently goes off the lower let or foot, that doesn't always get called. But, I have no idea what happened.
Illinois was without Kofi so that’s a pretty big guy (in several ways) to be missing, but curbelo looked like crap. He has to learn to reign it in. You can’t have a pg who follows up one spectacular pass with a couple turnovers and poor shots