Northwestern at Illinios

[tornado]

NW 23 - Ill 22
7 min to go 1st half
(Illinois has zero bench points so far...wonder if everyone is gonna have a fit?)

[tornado]

Billy Cole with a "3", Illinois goes up 25-23

[tornado]

If Illinois could stop the Northwestern 3-pointers!

NW is 7-17 on 3-pointers, and the one by Cole just now was Illinois' first!

yet aonther 3-poimter and NW goes back up 33-29

[tornado]

Tisdale for 2..Illinois now down 35-31, Mike Tisdale with 14 pts already on 7-9 - 2 min left 1st half

[DUBrave5]

42-33 northwestern at the half

[Disturbed]

NW is 11-23 on 3's for the first half.

[Bravesfan]

I'm starting to wonder if Illinois is not all that they are cracked up to be. But then again, there is plenty of time for them to mount a comeback as they did at Clemson.

Oh who cares. I'm still glad we beat them, no matter what our records turn out to be!

[Out of Balance]

P Town Boy Bill Cole hits a big time three

[bert notorius]

It's gonna be a long, regular season.

[Bravesfan]

Well, Illinois passes its first test of the season and Northwestern needs to hold serve at home. This should be a dandy of a race in the Big Ten.

Maybe Illinois does not get style points, but they got the job done. Of course since I live only about 15 miles west of Evanston, I consider Northwestern one of my local teams even though I have no affiliation with Northwestern. So I will root them on to an NCAA Tournament bid, hopefully though not at the expense of Bradley!

[MacabreMob]

There went my 3-teamer.... farkin UIUC couldn't cover 7 points.

[tornado]

wow- Illinois overcame the hot shooting of Northwestern in the 1st half from 3-pt, but in the end Northwestern was 17-46 from 3-pt...
3 NW players play over 40 min...Thompson plays all 45....they are not going to last the long Big Ten season playing basically just 5 or 6 guys...

Illinois' Mike Davis had 20 pts, 17 rebs, and Tisdale ended with 31 pts. on just 14 FG attempts...
John Shurna had 27 but it took him 23 FG attempts.



BTW, Missouri State's loss at Arkansas now looks a little weaker, as Arkansas tonight hosted Baylor and got spanked 70-47