Good morning. After emotional night, I tried, with a clear head, to evaluate what happened last night.
I had watched the first half of the game only, mainly because in Brad’s quick interview during the first half he noted that his strategy going forward was to wish they could make Connecticut center a foot shorter, and that they would continue to drive at him. At half time, I switched to another channel.
I couldn’t stand the suspense so I logged into ESPN’s website and saw that with 7 minutes left, the score was 59 to 29 and that Illinois had been shooting about 15% from the field. Six points in 13 minutes.
This morning I revisited ESPN‘s website and went through the play-by-play account. A couple things stand out. In the first half we had scored one point (MD made free throw) in the first four minutes.
In the second half we scored zero points in the first 7 minutes. Instead of calling it a 30 to 0 scoring run for Connecticut, let’s look at it as a 7 minute drought for Illinois.
During that drought, we missed two jump shots, seven three-pointers, and five lap ups. We never shot a free-throw. Underwood called one time out in addition to the television time out during that 12 1/2 minute drought.