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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. UCLA

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mshelton33

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It's Senior Night and Northwestern (16-13, 7-11 Big Ten) hosts UCLA (20-9, 11-7 Big Ten) tonight at 8 pm CT. The game will air on FS1.
 
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EagerFan

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Lots of fight so far, looks like the refs are going to be calling the shoulder lunge into defender a blocking foul tonight.
 
SmellyCat

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By my count, UCLA has only five players on the floor, but I swear they have about 12 or 13 hands out there when they're playing D. They're everywhere.
 
SmellyCat

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We talked about the swagger in the last game. Windham's got it big time. Maybe he hasn't quite earned a 30-foot shot attempt yet, but I kinda didn't mind anyway. Next one's going in.
 
Hungry Jack

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Decent crowd with noticeable energy. Very entertaining first third of the game.
 
DaCat

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KJ on fire, though he shouldn’t shoot that last one.
 
GatoLouco

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UCLA surely sped us up way more than the speed we like to play. Glad we have been able to get more composed.
 
Hungry Jack

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UCLA plays defense more aggressively with better athletes than any team we’ve seen
 
DaCat

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It wasn’t always pretty but I’ll take the 1 point lead at halftime.
 
GatoLouco

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The athleticism gap is reminiscent of the UCLA team that beat us in the tournament. But it seems to me the tournament team had considerably more skill.
 
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Hungry Jack said:
UCLA plays defense more aggressively with better athletes than any team we’ve seen
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Agree. We’ve had some success just taking the defender to the rim because they are so aggressive. We need to keep doing that to keep them honest and so they can’t just smother the player with the ball. Like what I’m seeing out of KJ and Ty in that respect.
 
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macarthur31

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The Wildside has been locked in since tipoff. Giving great energy.

Meanwhile, the lady behind me tapped at me to sit down as I was stood up as Ty Berry stole the ball and was driving to the glass in transition.
 
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EagerFan

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Both teams shooting about 45% from the field so far. Driving seems to be getting us to the line more than we usually see.
 
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ThatadultfromHolland

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First things first. Martinelli is sooooo good. Clayton on the switch played really good D and funneled the bigger guy right to Matt for a block.
 
SmellyCat

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Can NU keep playing at this pace? Possibly. Can my heart handle it? I'm not so sure.
 
Hungry Jack

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I thought I saw Cade Bennermen on the upper level, though I can’t imagine he’d be here on a Monday night
 
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EagerFan

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Keenan giving us some good minutes and Cats are just not getting the bounces in the last several minutes.
 
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