Yes.But barely. Prairie View A&M last year. Western Michigan this year (and Binghamton was uncomfortably close). Eventually you get burned if you don't put these teams away by the midpoint of the 2nd half. Today was that day.
Chicago State hit their shots, we missed outs. They made their free throws we missed half of ours at the end. They we quicker on defense and at the end all these differences resulted In a stunning lossBut barely. Prairie View A&M last year. Western Michigan this year (and Binghamton was uncomfortably close). Eventually you get burned if you don't put these teams away by the midpoint of the 2nd half. Today was that day.
The sky is not falling. The team has actually performed better than I expected with the obvious glaring exception of yesterday. Just don’t let that happen again.Purdue Fort Wayne last year. Or newly D1 Merrimack a while back, though that was a not so good/very young NU team.
This is a message board, folks will act like the sky is falling.
It was bad, it was not inconceivable.