NORTHERN IOWA @ SMC

[strike00]

and the ridiculous coast to coast turnaround is probably a part of this performance, but not nearly as much a part of it as UNI fans hope.

[beatingrillz]

Panthers are young and right now really bad. They have nothing inside and no more Kwazdo to save them. I think SIU could have played better. They gotta pick thier heads up right now or they will lose by 40.

[strike00]

I've never seen a Jacobson coached team look like they just want to get off the floor before.

[UNIFanSince1983]

Well when you miss as many layups as we have tonight you just cannot win any games. Add that to AJ being 1 for 100, giving up offensive rebounds, and turnovers you are going to get blown out every time.

[UNIFanSince1983]

We will not score 40...

[beatingrillz]

Hard to like Sonnen to many fits and too much whine!

[strike00]

40 points!

[UNIFanSince1983]

Final
SMC 57
UNI 41

On the plus side the defense was really good. St. Mary's likes to run and score a lot of points.

Unfortunately there was so much wrong on the offensive end that we got blown out while giving up under 60. There is a lot to improve upon, and was nice to see some fight at the end.

[Ali]

Couldn't have looked any worse from where I'm at. I'll take 1-1 though.

[Khan4Cats]

57-41 Final, wasn't really close. Game can best be summed up by this stat: Anthony James 1-15. Really about sums it up, UNI couldn't make anything: lay-ups, jumpers, three-pointers-27% on the game. Competed decently on the boards-losing 42-34, which isn't bad considering how many shots they missed, only gave up 2 second chance points, reduced turnovers from 10 in the first half to only 4 after, forced 15 turnovers ourself.

Like the ODU result, not sure how much you can take from this game other than UNI will still be playing tough defense. Offense is going to be hit and miss depending on what kind of shooting night UNI is having. Anthony James may be the barometer all season as far as offense goes. A lot of new players working their way into the system, nice to see Pehl return to the court-at least adds some size.

1-1 on this opening road swing is not horrible, the results are somewhat schizophrenic, but it's a start and we have film to work with and let Jake and staff put things together. St. Mary's is a quality program and will compete with Gonzaga in the WCC, would have liked a closer result but it isn't like the loss we took at Iowa last year when we scored 39 and lost to a team that struggled to double-digit wins.

Come home for the first two of the South Padre, starting with NCAA qualifier Northern Colorado on Sunday.