Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Lehigh

[catfans5]

Hunger is much leaner and stronger. Martinelli beefed up also.

 

[GatoLouco]

It’s great to score 51. It’s great to be up by 36. It’s great Lehigh only scored 15.

But, for me, the greatest thing in this first half was our attitude on defense from the first possession.

Often games like this become cold, unemotional affairs, just going through the motions for most of the first half.

Not for us tonight. Our guys were fired up from the start like they were about to play Purdue in front of a sell out crowd.

 

[NUera]

Loving that the freshmen have no fear!

As Randy Walker was fond of saying, “if they don’t nip as puppies, they won’t bite as adults.”

 

[TheC]

I don't expect us to win the second half by 36, but I hope we play with intensity for most of the rest of the way. So far so good.

 

[phatcat]

Wow what a blowout

 

[jensberg]

Wow what a blowout

Amazingly Ty berry who we expect to be one of our best players is scoreless and we're still up by 37 points

 

[PZAZ]

What was the great news about bennerman?

 

[EagerFan]

Ty sat most of the first half.

I expect the score to narrow a bit as Collins is playing the B team and might leave them in a lot of minutes.

 

[docrugby1]

Amazingly Ty berry who we expect to be one of our best players is scoreless and we're still up by 37 points

Where is our transfer center?

 

[SmellyCat]

Amazingly Ty berry who we expect to be one of our best players is scoreless and we're still up by 37 points

He made a three, but point still stands. They didn't need him. Or Barnhizer. Or Boo.

 

[SmellyCat]

Where is our transfer center?

And, um, no Clayton yet either. He's definitely been passed on the depth chart.

 

[GatoLouco]

I’m going to stick my neck out and say we will cover the spread. Taking big risks here

 

[EagerFan]

Fitzmorris gets onto the court, misses a bunny and a hard shot, blocks the snot out of a shot. Moves well.

 

[EagerFan]

Nick looked gassed at the 8 minute mark. Needs to run more laps.

 

[SDakaGordie]

What was the great news about bennerman?

He’s a lock.

 

[jensberg]

He’s a lock.

I wonder if we will see Clayton or Barkley in the game

 

[PZAZ]

Barkley is in

 

[jensberg]

I wonder if we will see Clayton or Barkley in the game

Apparently we will see them both. Colin seems quite upset at Fitz Morris

 

[SmellyCat]

Barkley set up beautifully for an open three. Would've been nice to see it drop, but not much to complain about. Fitzmorris looks like his defense is ahead of his offense, but at least he isn't afraid to shoot. I'm guessing Collins is telling him he should be.

 

[RiseNorthwestern]

Never seen that before… Collins called timeout when 7ft fitzmorris started lining up a 3 pt shot. 🙂

 

[catfans5]

WE GET CHICKEN!!!

 

[Hungry Jack]

I was pretty impressed with Windham. He played a lot of minutes, and had maybe one turnover.

Mullins had 9 rebounds. He was very active on defense.

They couldn’t defend Nick.

When Ciarvino went dumb freshman YMCA pickup ball hero with a dumb dribble drive during mop up time, I could hear Collins yelling before the play was even done. He pointed to the end of the bench like an AKC dog trainer and Angelo had a seat.

 

[rogerkim]

Angelo’s family, about 30% of the crowd, goes wild on his first basket.

There were certainly a lot of 44 jerseys in the crowd...local kid, so not surprising, but man, that it is one supportive family.