BTI Tipoff Tourney

[BMPanther]

dunham and montgomery looked great, we sure have a a lot of off-guards. No true point guard hurts!

Coleman only played 8 minutes Looks like Coach Jake is resting EC versus a pretty sorry NIU team...

Coleman played 15 minutes and was very effective (3-3 from the field).

Jordan with an awesome game: 16 points 15 rebs, 3 blks, 2 asts.

Koch with a great defensive game 13 boards and a nice 6 asts.

Brown looked real good, as did Josten.

Very impressed with Dunham and especially Montgomery.

With that said, it was Northern Illinois. Don't get me wrong, I am very happy with the win, but can't wait to see what we do against UMASS! (And Cal Poly, but you know what I'm saying)

GO PANTHERS!!!

Great game!

[Kyle]

Great game today, but I agree with BM, it was only Northern Illinois.

Even though the student section and overall attendance was low, I was impressed with the cheering and crowd involvement. Some of the cheers and antics while N. Illinois was shooting free throws were great.

I watched the Cal Poly and U Mass game earlier this afternoon. The game was very close until the last 8 minutes when U Mass began to pull away. They play at a much faster pace than we do, than again, almost everyone outside the Valley does. If we play like we did tonight, I don't foresee any problems with either team. We are bigger than they are and play much better defense IMO.

[01PantherFan]

final score ?

[Khan4Cats]

What we learned tonight:

1) Northern Illinois is NOT GOOD.






2) We have depth and a lot of people who can score.

other than that, I'm not sure this was a very good game to try to determine what we really are going to be like. I like the energy the youngsters brought, otherwise...

better Free Throw shooting, a little quicker start, would still like to see Jordan try to bring the rim down every time he gets in close and let the defender decide he wants to keep his teeth.

[BCPanther]

75-45 Final BTW...

Solid Win. Didn't really extend anybody. 1 down- 29 to go...

[Panther-Sheik]

I thought the freshman did well last night. Montgomery has huge upside and Kerwin looked pretty comfortable out there. O'Rear never seemed to get into the flow, but he is still a horse no matter what. I did notice how much of a different "presence" Koch has on the court this year compared to last, though. He is vocal and almost has a swagger...I love it!! When we get Reed and (hopefully) Kwadzo back, I don't see any way we are even close to 7th in the Valley.

[DWadle1983]

Nice info 2317. I thought the only noteworthy player for Missouri on that team was Anthony Peeler, but I stand corrected.

I skimmed a NIU preview in the Tribune a few days ago. They have four guys who started at least 10 games last year returning. A fifth returning starter shot 51% from three last season but is out with a shoulder injury (hope I didn't jinx Kawzdo). Even though they're coming off a poor record with a new coach, they must have some depth and experience. I'd be a little leery of declaring us 20 point winners in this game.

Missouri also had PF Doug Smith, the sixth pick of the '91 NBA Draft, and was the Big 8 Player of the Year in 1990. Jason Reese outplayed the Big 8 Player of the Year.

[jman2004]

yeah ... it looks really empty ... probably because the of big sponsors not filling their front row seats again like last year

The empty seats might've had more to do with the state playoffs and CF playing in the Dome than anything else. CF Volleyball won state earlier in the day. The UNI girls played. People might've been all sportsed out yesterday. I think the CF football game started around 5 o'clock and went into OT, so that could've been where a lot of our normal fans are.

I too though was very unimpressed with the crowd. Where were the students? That's pathetic to have 1/4 of the place brown bleachers for our students and maybe 100 or so show up to fill the bottom rows.

And will they be removing the volleyball tape anytime soon?

[ubuntuCAT]

Where were the students? That's pathetic to have 1/4 of the place brown bleachers for our students and maybe 100 or so show up to fill the bottom rows.

How can you single out the students when there was overall terrible attendance? At least the students that were there were vocal and in to the game.

I don't care what the circumstances were I was really disappointed to see the sea of people surrounding the sports complex and then a maybe half full Mcleod Center.

[EVSPanther]

half is pretty generous...hopefully it gets better tonight

[EastonWest]

Still not working, about ready to blow up!

How come you dont just go to the game?

[unigriff]

actually we had over 400 at the game for students...

[Newsbreaker]

Remember, half of Cedar Falls was at a LONG football game in the dome Friday night. After that, many people only have so much gas in the tank!

[jman2004]

How can you single out the students when there was overall terrible attendance? At least the students that were there were vocal and in to the game.

I don't care what the circumstances were I was really disappointed to see the sea of people surrounding the sports complex and then a maybe half full Mcleod Center.

You obviously didn't read my post carefully enough. The reason I singled out the students were because I'm assuming many adults in the Cedar Valley packed the Dome for the CF game. I was hoping that being the first game of the season, the students could make up for the lack of "older folk" that wouldn't be attending. The student section bleachers looked just as bare as the rest of the place.

And I didn't say anything about the students that were there. The ones that came did a great job cheering. I'm just wondering what else do the students have to do on a Friday night. Come watch a basketball game for free, then go out to the bars if you want. I don't know. This coming from a guy who didn't miss a home game in two seasons as a student because a friend played on the team. Maybe I'm unrealistic though.

[jman2004]

I don't care what the circumstances were I was really disappointed to see the sea of people surrounding the sports complex and then a maybe half full Mcleod Center.

Remember that that "sea of people" was in large part due to high school football playoffs. Not the UNI basketball game. I singled out students assuming that they wouldn't want to go to the football game, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the UNI students from CF and Bettendorf all attended the high school game.