Post Game Chatter, volume 5, edition 12

hard to comment much on a game you can't see.

hopefully they'll tighten up a bit on D tomorrow. they'll need to play sharper to upset UTEP.

If we foul against UTEP as much as we did tonight, then we lose.

The technical was on a blocking foul when Parker had position and was playing good defense. Miles said "he had position". No profanity. No histrionics. That ref was making poor calls all night. Only thing I can imagine is Miles said something earlier and the guy had one preloaded next time Miles spoke up.

The technical was on a blocking foul when Parker had position and was playing good defense. Miles said "he had position". No profanity. No histrionics. That ref was making poor calls all night. Only thing I can imagine is Miles said something earlier and the guy had one preloaded next time Miles spoke up.

If you are going to foul...then earn the foul.

If you are going to get a technical...then earn the technical. It doesn't sound like Coach Miles earned it.

Overall, very happy we got the win and shot the heck out of the ball. If we cut back on fouls and turnovers we win this thing by 30+. Offensively when we didn't turn it over sounded like we were getting whatever we wanted. Tomorrow will be very tough assuming we have UTEP. They just beat Oregon and are playing very well. They started slow this year, but 2 starters just last week rejoined the team.

Southern went into College Station and beat Texas A&M 53-51

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/miller-scores-17-southern-upsets-232727876--ncaab.html

If we foul against UTEP as much as we did tonight, then we lose.

I've got Arkansas Pine Bluff in the upset tonight

How many turnovers did we end up with...10 or 11? If so, we actually did very well against the press. Think about it guys, we had 5 or 6 before the first 4 minute time out. If that is the case, we then only had about 4 or 5 turnovers the last 36 minutes of the game. But the fouls, yikes!

How many turnovers did we end up with...10 or 11? If so, we actually did very well against the press. Think about it guys, we had 5 or 6 before the first 4 minute time out. If that is the case, we then only had about 4 or 5 turnovers the last 36 minutes of the game. But the fouls, yikes!

At one point Matt made the comment about having 14 TO's

If anyone wants, they can follow the UTEP-Ark Pine Bluff on the gametracker link.

http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbaskbl.html?sport=mbaskbl&camefrom=1223080&startschool=utep&event=1164878&school=cs&

They can't score like this at home so we get Runza's??? I was very strange having to listen to the game on the radio. Nice to hear guys like Rivers and Sheilds improving as the season goes on.

89 points - pretty sweet. Hasn't come often enough around here.

I just had to dig up another obscure statistic. I knew we scored a lot in the 90's but I was still a little shocked by what I found below.

Number of 89+ games for NU by decade:

'50-'59 3

'60-'69 22

'70-'79 10

'80-'89 27

'90-'99 73

'00-'09 11

'10-'19 1

89 points - pretty sweet. Hasn't come often enough around here.

I just had to dig up another obscure statistic. I knew we scored a lot in the 90's but I was still a little shocked by what I found below.

Number of 89+ games for NU by decade:

'50-'59 3

'60-'69 22

'70-'79 10

'80-'89 27

'90-'99 73

'00-'09 11

'10-'19 1

Speaking of the 90s and Danny Nee, can we bring him in as an assistant? Half kidding. FWIW, he's still coaching for the United States Merchant Marine Academy basketball team: http://www.usmmasports.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/schedule

Scorers rims....I heard Matt or Kent mention that the rims were loose. It does help.

I looked up the referees for tonights game. Here they are:

1) Jimmy Casa. I swear as God as my witness, this was only his second college game ever. His first game was Utah v. Texas Statee. I swear. So to say that he may have been a bit overwhelmed may be a bit of an understatement.

2) Mike Garranto. Again I kid you not. If this site is to believed, this was his FIRST college game. He is the ref who handed out the two technicals. Again, he perhaps was just a tad out of his element.

3) Shawn Lehigh. A 17-year college referee. He mostly does Mountain West and WAC games. He appears to average about 40 games a year. I would guess that he was the "stable" referee within this group.

Seriously, we are about a third of the way through the season, and two of these guys are just now starting to referee games...no wonder this was a foul fest.

http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees

I agree... come Big 10 play, we will get bumped around if we start to play soft... I say just keep doing what ever we were doing tonight... hey, we scored 89

Coach Miles and David Rivers, post game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NMFYPy6Wnd8

Dylan post game - nice sound system, you can hear the reporters better than the player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nsIpAFZkeNs

David looked a tad nervous in front of the cameras. Hopefully he has more games like this in his career and gets a chance to practice his interview skills. Loved Miles giving him grief about scoring 20 without shooting a three.