Norm Peterson

Iowa State has a VERY shallow bench and one of their best players just picked up his 4th foul with about 17 1/2 minutes to play.

Illinois up 5 on Iowa State at half. Only 2 of Illinois' starters have scored. The bench, however … Illinois leads it 39-34. Go Fighting whatever Illinois' mascot is!!!

Wasn't it BTN analysts arguing last year we didn't belong in the dance?

That's insulting. OUR conference network showing basically the offensive highlights of an opponent we SPANKED. The Bears made 11 FGs in the 1st half and BTN showed 6 them. Including one they replayed 3 times. Do you think they'd do that to Michigan or Wisconsin or Ohio State? What are we? Chopped liver?

The Bears "stormed" back? That's just dumb. That's "analysis" by a guy who either just plain didn't watch the game or watched it with blue-tinted glasses. We went up 6-0 to start the game and the Bears strung 7 points together to take a 7-6 lead. Seven points in a row. That was the longest scoring streak they went on the whole game. Here's the amount of our lead the whole game: 1st Half: 3, 6, 4, 1, -1, 1, -1, -2, 1, 3, 5, 3, 5, 7, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 9, 8, 10, 7, 8, 6, 3, 6, 7, 10, 7 half time 2n Half: 7, 8, 9, 6, 8, 5, 8, 6, 8, 11, 13, 11, 13, 11, 9, 11, 13, 11, 10, 12, 10, 9, 12, 15, 13, 12, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 15, 17, 19, 22, 20, 23, 24, 26, 24, 25, 23, end The only time you could really claim they came "storming" back would MAYBE be the point where they cut our 12 point lead down to 3 late in the first half. In the second half, we just continued to gradually pull away.

Tech it is, winners over USC by 15. They were down at half by 9 and came storming back in the 2nd half. This is who I wanted us to play. Not overwhelming length, which has given us troubles in the past. This should be a good match-up for us. Really good test to see how good we are on a neutral floor against a likely tournament team.

USC lead by 9 at half. TTech came storming back to tie the game at 44 with 11:25 left. Should be a challenge tomorrow no matter who we face.

Man, a win tomorrow would give us, and the Big Ten, a really solid boost.

Gotta be. Maybe the beginning of ‘14-‘15 we were higher. Briefly.

As Southwest Missouri State, they made the Sweet 16 under the direction of a former Husker assistant.

I was making light of the fact that these computer things don't take into account something clearly relevant.

Missing starters? Pffft. Ken Pomeroy doesn't care.

Apparently the shoes in Wisconsin don’t fit well either.

When I first saw Mac McClung's highlight tape, I thought this kid has to be a high-level 4-star, maybe top 50. I was shocked SHOCKED to see he wasn't ranked. Rivals was clearly asleep at the switch on this kid. Unexplainable. Patrick Ewing wasn't asleep. Got himself the sleeper steal of this recruiting class.

Holy crap, this kid was an unranked 3-star, and he's starting for G'town now as a true freshman and doing stuff like this: