March 4 - IUWBB vs Northwestern - B1G Tournament 2:30 E.T.

[HoosierAloha]

The NW girl actually ran into Jen Anderson's elbow no?  That was odd.

[mamasa]

This sucks- 3rd quarter has been ours this season.  I was hoping to blow them out in it.  

[colonel06]

Just tuned in Nwestern doesn't look like a 12 to me!!

[TheWatShot]

Why waste a timeout with 0.5 seconds left? Whoever takes the inbounds pass probably won't get a shot off in time anyway. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

I'm getting nervous that NW is still controlling this game.  My god, they've got to be tired since it's their 3rd game in 3 days but they certainly don't act tired and we're getting banged around pretty good with no calls.

 

End of the 3rd quarter and NW still leading 54 - 49.   We can't pull our shooting % up and that's the key difference in the game. 

 

Buss with 14, Cahill 11 pts.  Cahill with 9 reb. 

 

Come on Ladies, dig down and run them out of the gym in the 4th quarter.

[biteoftheapple]

Why waste a timeout with 0.5 seconds left? Whoever takes the inbounds pass probably won't get a shot off in time anyway.

Pardon me?

[HoosierAloha]

There should have actually been more time on the clock after the block out of bounds.  The clock ran a bit after the ball hit the ground and the signal from the ref. 

[TheWatShot]

If there was a foul, it doesn't matter if she released the shot before the buzzer. Continuation means it counts regardless. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

OOPS, my bad.  Somehow, we pulled off a spectacular in-bounds basket with .5 sec. remaining in the 3rd quarter and NW leads 54 - 51. 

[seanmm1971]

Gift

[colonel06]

Great!!

[TheWatShot]

Getting totally outplayed on both ends of the floor. Disappointing. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

OOPS, my bad.  Somehow, we pulled off a spectacular in-bounds basket with .5 sec. remaining in the 3rd quarter and NW leads 54 - 51. 

 

Hope CTC took notes on how to run that in-bounds play!   :laugh:

[TheWatShot]

Has Northwestern missed a shot in the fourth quarter?

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

We're a step slow on the NW drives and shutting of the lanes.  We're the one ones that look like we've played 3 games in 3 days

 

69 - 63 NW leads with 4 min. remaining.

[LockdownD]

Turnovers are killers

[tyappleg]

It appears BTT woes are not limited to our men's team, unfortunately. 

[mamasa]

Ref called that foul before it took place, BS

[mamasa]

Oh well, guess I know who I'll pull for the rest of the tourney.  

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

A valiant effort at the end, but simply too little too late.  NW's shots fell and ours didn't.  Northwestern wins 79 - 73 led by Nia Coffey's 26 pts. on 11 of 23 shooting  As a team NW was 32 of 69 from the field for 46%.  Conversely, we could only hit 26 of 67 for 39%.  Particularly rough game for Buss.  Really hard fall on her left elbow that she shook off as well as getting beat up most of the game, but her shooting touch was off the whole game as she only hit  4 of 18 from the field. 

 

Cahill with 23, Buss 16 and Gassion with 11 pts.  Cahill with 13 reb.  We only committed 13 TO's, but several were unforced. 

 

Now we wait for Sunday and the NCAA Women's Tournament pairings.

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