02-25-2012, 12:39 PM
You've got to love how much people care about this game...ESPN still lists Toler as our top scorer (I guess it's technically true...but relevant?).
If we beat CMU Sunday, we'll actually sweep a team this season! So...yeah.
CMU is bad (you know that because we've already beaten them.) They don't do much of anything all that well. They have Trey Zeigler (16 ppg but an AWFUL free throw shooter...and their best rebounder, somehow)...and....uh...Derek Johnson isn't too bad. Neither is Austin McBroom (no, that name isn't a typo). But all their scoring comes from their guards, so it's a matchup we can win on D.
..Sorry...I'm still laughing about the last name McBroom.
Nixon has quietly stepped up his game (3 straight with 10 or more points) and started the last one. Hopefully he keeps up the scoring. Nader also has been rebounding well the last few games....keep it up, gangly man.
Last time out, we had to shoot lights out (63% from 3) to beat a bad team at home by 8. So just because this is a winnable game, nothing is easy for this team. We've also played a lot better on the road lately, so that's encouraging. CMU hasn't exactly gotten better as the season has gone on, either; they've lost 11 of their last 12, almost all MAC games.
Did you know that 56.3 percent of the minutes played in the NIU lineup have been played by first year players; no other team in the MAC has had more than 22 percent of its minutes played by freshmen? We've paid the price this year, hopefully it pays off later. Now back to our featured presentation.
I'm dying for a win, so I'll let the tiny part of my brain that still has hope predict this one:
We get our first road win. NIU 66, CMU 65.
If we beat CMU Sunday, we'll actually sweep a team this season! So...yeah.
CMU is bad (you know that because we've already beaten them.) They don't do much of anything all that well. They have Trey Zeigler (16 ppg but an AWFUL free throw shooter...and their best rebounder, somehow)...and....uh...Derek Johnson isn't too bad. Neither is Austin McBroom (no, that name isn't a typo). But all their scoring comes from their guards, so it's a matchup we can win on D.
..Sorry...I'm still laughing about the last name McBroom.
Nixon has quietly stepped up his game (3 straight with 10 or more points) and started the last one. Hopefully he keeps up the scoring. Nader also has been rebounding well the last few games....keep it up, gangly man.
Last time out, we had to shoot lights out (63% from 3) to beat a bad team at home by 8. So just because this is a winnable game, nothing is easy for this team. We've also played a lot better on the road lately, so that's encouraging. CMU hasn't exactly gotten better as the season has gone on, either; they've lost 11 of their last 12, almost all MAC games.
Did you know that 56.3 percent of the minutes played in the NIU lineup have been played by first year players; no other team in the MAC has had more than 22 percent of its minutes played by freshmen? We've paid the price this year, hopefully it pays off later. Now back to our featured presentation.
I'm dying for a win, so I'll let the tiny part of my brain that still has hope predict this one:
We get our first road win. NIU 66, CMU 65.