10:58

Huskies up 53-42

It's a game of streaks. Miami gets it within about 6 and then NIU catches fire and extends it back out.

Right now, it's Thornton and Williams. Hankerson is scoreless in the 2nd half.

7:58

NIU up 60-48

Makuoi has been a force the last couple minutes but just picked up his 4th foul.

Danger zone……fight it off here.

3:35

NIU up 65-55

1:17

NIU up 69-62

1:03

NIU up 71-65

Miami just took their last timeout.

Game rides on our free throws now. Up 71-65 with 1:03.

Real quick count on the 5 second violationl

Absolutely imploding. This would be an inexcusable loss.

Miami is shooting unbelievably right now.

10 seconds to go

Tie game...

.5 (maybe a bit more...)

NIU ball under the basket.

.7 seconds.

Going to OT...

There was a lot of Crump stuff (losing the ball a few times, not getting it inbounds, etc).

But the Okanu lane violation on a Williams made free throw (1st shot of a 1 and 1) is huge.

A complete failure by the coach and players. They could not break a press and Bruno had no answers. Monty used to run a guy out of bounds to get the ball in works every time

36.7 to go

Miami up 82-79.

Miami isn't missing anything. We aren't rebounding anymore. Playing tight. Forcing shots.

Final three minutes and OT have been a complete disaster. This game NEVER should have been a loss. Led by 8/10 points virtually the entire game.

As much as NIU lost this game, I'm not sure what to do when a team simply never misses a shot for 8 or 9 minutes.

Tough break. Leading pretty much the entire game and being up by 9 points with less than 1.5 mins in regulation. Then playing good defense on that last Miami possession but they got the 3.

Miami shot something like 15% from 3 in the first half (and took a decent amount of them). They finished shooting 35% from 3.

Btw, with 1:04 to play, NIU had a win probability of 93%.