Had to grind that one out a bit, but they needed that one, big time.
- This was a weird game. The first game felt like it was stuck in Champaign. It was maybe the worst half of basketball NU's played this year, at least on offense. Fortunately the defense made Indiana play ugly, too.
- The second half, they eventually found their legs again and zoomed past IU.
- I think the game was won when NU was forced to put Copeland and Palmer on the bench with foul trouble early in the second half, down 1 and turned that into a lead before they got back into the game.
- Jordy came up big today. With the aforemoentioned JPG and Cope in foul trouble for a bit, we needed someone to step up. His rebounding was big today.
- Roby continues to play well. He fell a rebound short of his fourth straight double-double.
- Evan also comes up big with the game on the line, seemingly every time. He was one who stepped up in that period where the big guns were on the bench.
- Glynn was better today. Still a couple sketchy decisions, but he hit a couple of big shots and that put back and-one was big time.
- I think they got their butts chewed at half for all the 3's they were taking. The first half was so frustrating. 16 3's was absurd. 0 free throws was even worse. They had more free throws than 3's by double in the 2nd half and it probably what turned the tide.
- Was this the most offensive rebounds we had all year? 19 is as many as I can remember in a long time. That was another big stat in the game.
- The FT stats don't look great becasue they missed a few in the last minute, but they hit their first 9, I think, and that was big, too.
- Basically, NU just dominated the last 14 minutes of the game or so. IU has some dudes.
- I feel better now that PSU can't pass us in the standings. We could have the 4 seed locked up 22 hours from now.
- Regardless of what happens in Happy Valley tomorrow, NU still needs that game badly on Sunday, and PSU likely will too. Should make for an intense basketball game. Crowd is gonna need to be better than they were most of the night tonight. Let's finish this thing out right!
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