Game thread for No. 7 Northwestern vs. No. 10 Boise State

[mshelton33]

Welcome back to March Madness! After five seasons away, Northwestern is making its return to the NCAA Tournament as the No. 7 seed in the West Region.

The Wildcats will play No. 10 seed Boise State at 6:35 p.m. CT at the Golden1 Center in Sacramento. The game will be broadcast nationally on truTV.

 

[NUCat320]

GO CATS GO CATS GO CATS GO!!

 

[Hungry Jack]

To prepare for this game, I did several yogurt poses to loosen up my body for those jumps off my cupful, schmumfy couch

 

[DaCat]

Go go go go go !!!

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

where is charles!

 

[NUCat320]

Jay Wright: I think Northwestern is a little underrated. GO CATS GO CATS GO

 

[zbag51]

Go Cats!

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

lets go boys

 

[NUCat320]

Lovely first bucket. They were guarding for the lob and Matty handled it.

 

[NUCat320]

Chase is tooooo quick!

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Missing bunnies and absolutely passing on rebounds, HATE IT so far. Get it together.

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

Good start on offense. Not so great on defense...
Beautiful blocking by Nicholson to enable Chase to waltz in for a layup.

 

[NUCat320]

It looks like NU has settled into a 3-2 zone a few times.

 

[NUCat320]

Good start on offense. Not so great on defense...
Beautiful blocking by Nicholson to enable Chase to waltz in for a layup.

Way to use your booooty, big man.

 

[GatoLouco]

MN’s fingerprints are all over this offense. The two Audige layups were set up by him.

Weirdly our defense is iffy. Put your arms up?

 

[NUCat320]

It looks like NU has settled into a 3-2 zone a few times.

And now back to man w Nicholson out.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

NU's length and quicks is not somethign BSU looks remotely ready for

 

[GrandRapidsCatFan]

Martinelli with the layup! When he gets his it's trouble for the opponent

 

[NUCat320]

Martinelli w a goofy lefty move. Kids from Glenview shouldn’t be masters of the Eurostep!

 

[zbag51]

Felt the the effort went up a notch, like to see it!

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

LIke where this is going

 

[mekCat]

4 steals, defense doing it's usual. Now 5.

 

[GatoLouco]

Kind of weird to see our guards penetrating fairly easily

 

[CatManTrue]

Chase picked the perfect time to return to form offensively. I am pleased thus far.

 

[TejasCat]

Berry is killing us! Up 10 with the ball and he melts down

 

[EagerFan]

Boise getting pretty physical, testing the refs, finally get called.

 

[GatoLouco]

Berry is just not a confident dude right now. On the contrary, he is clearly doubting himself

 

[NUCat320]

Both teams shooting 50% from the field with 3 offensive rebounds. 5 TOs for Boise versus one for NU is the difference this far.

 

[NUCat320]

I don’t know how Tydus flipped the switch. He looked so tentative early in the season. Great to see him in passing lanes and on the offensive glass.

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

Get MN in there now

 

[AdamOnFirst]

They keep standing around on these king rebounds and letting it roll to Boise

 

[RiseNorthwestern]

Robbie Beren is just looking at loose balls. C’mon man!

 

[zbag51]

They keep standing around on these king rebounds and letting it roll to Boise

Yeah, looked like 4 guys just watching that ball on the 3 ball miss

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

Barnhizer!

 

[GatoLouco]

Tallest lineup we have is on the floor. Wow

 

[nickcat4]

Yeah, looked like 4 guys just watching that ball on the 3 ball miss

Get berry out for readjustment he is lost

 

[MotownMedilldo]

I'm your conduit to Sacramento.

In the stands

 

[NUCat320]

Tallest lineup we have is on the floor. Wow

Bobo Barney at the point might be the future.

 

[PurpWildCatNation]

not a foul.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Chase Audige with the great shooting start and he goes into full blown totally cavalier with the ball can’t even see the defenders mode