2/11 Weekend Games

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altgeld88
Godard said:
They mentioned this during the broadcast. NW had never beaten #1 prior to today. They had previously beaten #2 twice (one of them the Magic Johnson MSU team of the '70's!).
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Thanks. Interesting. I looked up that '79 MSU NC team. They were in a 3-way tie for the BT title that season.

They lost 5 BT games including, of course, to the Illini on that EJ game-winner at the AH. Four of those games they lost by one or two points.

The fifth they lost to NW by 15 in Evanston. NW finished 2-16 in conference that year. Whuh?!

I thought to myself that some key Spartans must have been injured that Saturday afternoon in McGaw Hall! But no. Check it out. Just a stellar game plan by coach Rich Falk. Amazing, as Giorgi would say:

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The Day Northwestern Took Down Magic Johnson and Michigan State

Northwestern basketball has had many tough decades over the past century, especially since the glory days of the 1930s. None were worse than the 1970s, the only decade in history where NU suffered...
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jrichisamazing
Fighter of the Nightman said:
We have these Big Ten games before Saturday ... I will just go ahead and give my PERSONAL predictions of what will happen so we can get some hypothetical standings for Saturday:

TUESDAY
Illinois at Penn State
Nebraska at Rutgers
Michigan at Wisconsin

WEDNESDAY
Minnesota at Michigan State
Indiana at Northwestern

THURSDAY
Purdue at Maryland
Ohio State at Iowa

First off, I think NU has a comedown game and Indiana keeps up its good play. Conversely, UMD is great at home and I could see the Boilers start to have their luck catch up with them. If those results are correct - and there are definitely a few coin flips like IU/NU and PU/UMD - these would be the standings as we travel to Bloomington for a huge game on ESPN:

1. Purdue: 12-4
2. Indiana: 10-5
3. Illinois: 9-5
4. Northwestern: 9-6
4. Michigan State: 9-6
4. Iowa: 9-6
4. Rutgers: 9-6
4. Maryland: 9-6
4. Michigan: 9-6
5. Wisconsin: 6-9
5. Nebraska: 5-9
6. Penn State: 5-10
7. Nebraska: 5-11
8. Ohio State: 3-12
9. Minnesota: 1-13

All this is to simply say the following - if we take care of business at Penn State on Tuesday and get to 9-5, our game in Bloomington will range from huge (battle for second place and being in a GREAT spot for a double bye) to absolutely monumental (winner is RIGHT on Purdue's heels with each having one more game against the Boilers).

GO ILLINI! Beat PSU!
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I can't even imagine what the atmosphere in Bloomington would be like if this comes true! But I will definitely be rooting for NW against IU. Go Terps though!
 
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illiniswish09
BBlock24 said:
Honestly good for NW. They will make the NCAA this season for only the second time. Good for their fans. At the same time, kick their a** on the 23rd!
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I actually don't mind them this year. They play really hard and Boo Bouie and Chase Audige have been through a lot. Big screw you to those guys that jumped ship, happy for them.
 
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