Just checked out the NIU board and the game is not exactly their main focus. The only basketball related post I saw was someone asking if any football recruits were at the basketball game.
I did a while ago too - hard to find ANYTHING BBall..............
There's one thread on there now. Basically just discussing whether or not it will be a blowout. Unless we shoot lights out (which happened once or twice this year), it probably will be. It's not only 3s we can't make, it's most shots. Even wide open shots. Otherwise the team has gotten a little better. Not much.
Do you think there's light at the end of the tunnel NIU under the current coaching staff?
I'm optimistic the team will improve with the current coaching staff, maybe to a mid-level MAC team in the next couple years. The last 2 years, we lost some of our best players to transfer or to getting kicked off the team, which put us back to square one. So far, we haven't had that this year, and the team is playing more, well, like a team. Lots of playing time for the backups.
So we mostly haven't been getting blown out, we were within 6 against Akron briefly in the second half before they pulled away. We just don't make enough shots (same as last year) and I don't know if we have the players yet. We've had somewhat fewer turnovers I believe, even with freshmen playing, and free throw shooting is a little better but still not good enough.