- NIU Women's Soccer loses 4-3 by penalty kicks in the Semi-Finals of the MAC tournament against Toledo. Their final record was 10-5-5, which is their best mark since 1998. Congrats to girls soccer for finishing with a great record and making a great run in the MAC tourney!
- Women's Basketball beats Bradley 54-48. Aileen Rossouw & Kylie York lead the way with 14 and 12 points respectively. Rossouw also had 6 rebounds & 6 steals. We out-rebounded them 40-24!
- Men's Basketball loses to Northern Iowa (@ the BTI Tip-Off Tourney in Cedar Falls, IA) 45-75. Ouch this one really hurts. We only shot 32.7% (18-55) to UNI's 51.9% (28-54) and 47.6% (10-21) from 3-point land. We also got out-rebounded 48-30. Starters were Smith, Logan, Hart, Paradise & Yelder.
Saturday:
- NIU Football beats Kent State 27-20 to get their first MAC Conference Victory. RB Justin Anderson passes the 1,000 yd mark for the season. Our record turns to 2-8 with Navy around the corner. More analysis to come on that game later.
- Men's Basketball falls to UMass 102-87 in the 2nd game of the BTI Tourney. UMass was leading by 30+ points at one time. The Huskies rolled back scoring 24-6 against the Minutemen over the last 5 minutes of the game. That showed a ton of heart by this team to get back in the game. Earlier, we gave up an insane amount of 3-pointers to the Minutemen, shooting 53.8% (14-26). UMass also scored 31 points off of our 28 turnovers. Overall UMass shot 57.4% (31-54) to our 43.9% (29-66). Michael Patton went out with what appeared to be an anke injury as well.
- More positives from this game were that we out-rebounded the Minutemen 40-32 (20 offensive!), which is a major improvement from the last game. G Ryan Paradise led the way scoring 18 pts with 4 treys. F Egan Grafel had the game of his life scoring 14 with 11 boards seeing significant minutes.
- Women's Volleyball sweeps Toledo 3-0 on Senior night. Seniors Laura Baetzel and Mandi Caputo both played well in their last regular season match as Huskies. Baetzel tallied 11 kills and Caputo notched 30 assists along with nine digs. The MAC tourney starts on Tuesday with the Huskies hosting Ball State @ 7 PM at the Convo.
Sunday
- Cal Poly squeeks by NIU's Men's Basketball 88-78 in the BTI Tourney Finale. This is a game with huge runs and huge swings for each side. We were as close as 74-78 with 3:15 left in the game. The Mustangs, however, came back in this one mostly due to their 34 shots from the free throw line in the last 20 minutes. We couldn't stop fouling and we only shot 30.8% (12-39) in the 2nd half.
- Positives were that G Jarvis Nichols made the most of his start over F Sean Smith making a small lineup. He scored 18 points, while Paradise had another good showing scoring 21. Ryan Paradise may have scored a lot of points, but he was only 5-20 with 4 of those being 3-pointers. He scored 7 points from the charity stripe. F/C Michael Hart also had 14 points and F/C Egan Grafel continues to stay hot scoring 10 and grabbing 8 boards.
Looks like the Huskies could really use the hybrid player I blogged about in my MAC West preview, one Zach Paradise.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't sweat November losses to Northern Iowa too much but the lack of D I would sweat.