Game 11/20

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Chance is lumpy. Defense and rebounding always work.

Fair enough. Defense still a little out of sorts in the 2nd half, but UNI is drawing fouls and actually rebounding. When they are getting into transition they are being successful. Those big centers can't run too well.

40-34 UNI. 15 mins left

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Morgan St has 7 fouls in 7 mins. I guess they didn't see Mitchell on Tuesday, the FT line was the only place he could score from.

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Panthers settling down and wearing out the Bears. 58-45 with 7 mins left. MSU has 15 fouls in the 2nd half. After getting outrebounded 23-12 in the first half the Panthers have done a much better job on the glass in this half. Still losing the overall battle 34-27 but much better than the 1st half. Bozeman has just 4 pts in the 2nd half.

[Cdizzle]

Pulling away. Way to not blow it. Things are looking up.

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Tuttle and Washpun both have 12. Mitchell with 11 and Jesperson with 10. Jeremy Morgan has 10 in his first game without getting called for a plethora fouls.

17 fouls for Morgan St (Bozeman now has 3; Panthers drawing a foul on every drive by Mitchell and Tuttle).

67-49 2:50 left

[PantherSigEp]

Just goes to show it doesn't matter how bad a team is at shooting. If you give them 21 offensive boards even the school for the blind is going to hit some shots and close the gap.

Good job by the coaches and Panthers to make adjustments in the 2nd half and really run Morgan St out of the building.

Panthers lose the rebound battle 38-33 but I'll take it after that dreadful first half.

5 Panthers score in double figures led by 13 from both Deon and Jesperson. Really the biggest negatives from tonight, besides that awful rebounding and hustle performance in the 1st half, is the fact that UNI didn't have any meaningful contributions from Matt Bohannon or Nate Buss. They went 0-6 shooting.

Bohannon is especially concerning. I think he hit a 3 in the North Dakota game but he went 0-3 in the first couple minutes against SFA and did the same thing tonight. He took a few games to warm up last year before shooting very well in MVC play but still. This can't be the trend for the rest of the non-con and next year. Thankfully Lohaus and Jesperson have both provided some very productive mins at the 3 on O and D to make up for some of those struggles. If Bohannon and Buss had been rolling to tonight as well, boy, that would've been scary.

[Aargh]

Looks like that law of averages thing worked out pretty well in the second half. that and Morgan State fouling "a bit".

Grats on a great second half.

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Looks like that law of averages thing worked out pretty well in the second half. that and Morgan State fouling "a bit".

Grats on a great second half.

I think Cdizzle went into the locker room and told them to rebound and play D. Apparently they had forgotten because they did a heck of a better job at both in the 2nd half.

[UNIFanSince1983]

That was a completely different team in the second half. They came out with some fire, and decided to prove they were the better team. If they get that kind of effort all the time they can be scary good. Maybe not Wichita good, but still pretty damn good.

I am not as concerned about Bo or Buss. Bohannon started off dreadfully bad in non-con last year too. Buss just wasn't a good matchup with the big guys Morgan State had. He isn't big enough to defend them plus who knows if his toe was hurting him again or not.

Hopefully they play to their level against North Florida on Saturday instead of playing to the oppositions level for half the game.

[BCPanther]

North Florida isn't terrible apparently. They only lost by 2 at Northwestern last night.

Need to have some fire on Saturday. Unfortunately, its a 1:00 tip off during Football Tailgating and they WAY overpriced tickets ($25) for this one. Announced will be around 3500, but lots and lots of those people will be out in the parking lots...