Weird game. If you had told me that, without Mag, and with Caleb 1-12 and Paul 1-4, we'd only lose 66-60, I would have told you you're nuts. But that's what we saw. Kind of a shame, especially with the bench stepping up with Oskar hitting 3 huge treys in the first half to keep it from being a blowout (we were down 14) and with Simpson getting 7 on 3-5 shooting and getting 3 boards.
Thought Cliff played well with 15/4 and I wish we would've gotten the ball to him more, while Cam finally shot decently (5-11/2-5) with 14/4/1 (and 3 steals, but 3 TOs) and Hyatt played ok with 9/4/2, but again, hard to overcome the terrible offensive games by Paul and especially Caleb, although both played pretty good defense, especially Caleb, who had 8 boards, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block.
Wasn't that happy with the refs, not so much the 17-13 foul disparity, but the number of just bad calls, including the phantom charge on Cliff near the end and the terrible foul on PM in the first half, plus there was a blatant over the back by TJD late in the game. I still think IU was the better team, but this is a game where a few of those bad calls could've been the difference in a 6-point game and one that goes down to the wire.
But at the end of the day, only losing by 6 with such horrible offensive performances by Caleb and Paul and not having Mag - and against a very good IU team on the road, isn't the worst loss in the world. Let's see if we can do better against Illinois, but again, they're a very good team. We'll see.
Thought Cliff played well with 15/4 and I wish we would've gotten the ball to him more, while Cam finally shot decently (5-11/2-5) with 14/4/1 (and 3 steals, but 3 TOs) and Hyatt played ok with 9/4/2, but again, hard to overcome the terrible offensive games by Paul and especially Caleb, although both played pretty good defense, especially Caleb, who had 8 boards, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block.
Wasn't that happy with the refs, not so much the 17-13 foul disparity, but the number of just bad calls, including the phantom charge on Cliff near the end and the terrible foul on PM in the first half, plus there was a blatant over the back by TJD late in the game. I still think IU was the better team, but this is a game where a few of those bad calls could've been the difference in a 6-point game and one that goes down to the wire.
But at the end of the day, only losing by 6 with such horrible offensive performances by Caleb and Paul and not having Mag - and against a very good IU team on the road, isn't the worst loss in the world. Let's see if we can do better against Illinois, but again, they're a very good team. We'll see.
