Final score: Northwestern 78 Bradley 51

[bigjimmy]

Bleck

[MacabreMob]

Horrible and pathetic.

I put this on the coach. To NOT have team prepared to play a Big10 team when it means so much for us "little schools" getting a chance to play and beat a "big school".

Northwestern is not good and will not win many games in the Big10.

To go and flop on this stage? Takes me back to our stale 0-5 MVC start last season.

Pathetic.

Horrible.

[Da Coach]

Story-

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2019/11/25/mens-basketball-bradley-falls-to-northwestern-in-fort-myers-tip-off.aspx

The ugly stats-

https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2019-20/northwestern/boxscore/17899

[Lights down]

Clock struck midnight....Agreed with the 0-5 Valley start last year. Again I shake my head trying to understand. How can this happen? Our offensive motion seems helter skelter at best! Such an embarrassment!

[egib52]

This was BAD!!! The team didn't look prepared. They looked intimidated by the Big Ten team. I would say that is probably the worst game I remember seeing Henry play. Just all around they looked scared and unsure of themselves. NW seemed to shoot way better than I think they even expected, but we definitely need to work on boxing out (among other things).

[Tommy]

We did play horribly, but let's not make more out of it than we should. NU shot out of their minds. Everything they threw at the basket was going in, and it was just the opposite for us. It was extremely disappointing and we looked like a deer caught in headlights for most the game, but like Dub said below, let's see how we bounce back before we throw them to the wolves. Everyone can have a bad game, and that was certainly what that was!

[LittleBrave]

Absolutely shocked and bewildered when I saw the score this morning.
I was hoping at worst we'd lose by 5...by 5!!!

Are you kidding me??

We certainly are shooting like crap to start the season. We had all off season....doesn't make sense.
Northwestern is bottom feeder B-10...they will NOT be good.

Very sad result.

[ihatetea]

We did play horribly, but let's not make more out of it than we should. NU shot out of their minds. Everything they threw at the basket was going in, and it was just the opposite for us. It was extremely disappointing and we looked like a deer caught in headlights for most the game, but like Dub said below, let's see how we bounce back before we throw them to the wolves. Everyone can have a bad game, and that was certainly what that was!

I agree with this. Northwestern came into the game shooting 22% from three and shot ~50% on mostly contested shots. You can’t gameplan for a team doing something completely different than what they have been doing all year.

The flaw in our team that was exposed was our offense and general lack of size inside. We haven’t been a team that makes its first shot so far this year. But we’ve succeeded anyways because we could rebound all those misses. You can’t be number 5 in offensive rebounding without the missed shot opportunities. Childs and especially Henry have to work a lot harder against teams with size and most of Northwestern’s bigs were athletic enough to stay with them so they couldn’t just blow by them. Basketball is frequently a game of matchups, especially at the college level, and this was a bad one for us at this time of the year.

Have to take it as an opportunity to learn and grow.