Official UNI vs. CU game thread.

[BMPanther]

I needed to add this. Give Jordan the 14 minutes a game Koch is averaging. Right now, playing half the minutes Koch does, Jordan is averaging more points, rebounds, and blocks per game than Koch, and also has a much better field goal percentage. And I just refuse to believe he would give up anything more defensively than Koch...his reach would make up for quickness issues.

I still firmly believe Jordan could be a 10 and 10 guy this year and an impact in games like these last two, if only his PT went from 7 to 15-25. I'll stop there before I make an idiot, or more of an idiot, of myself and go into my "if Jordan went with McDermott" theory.

[AcesOverKings]

I do agree that we lost this game ourselves coming right out of the blocks. I have no idea where we were for the first 10 minutes of this game. With that said, we did fight back and never quit in this game. I hate Funk and Tolliver with a passion because whatever we do we can never stop either one of them. If we could just stop one of them we would win the game. I'm so happy that both of them are Seniors, so we should actually be able to beat Creighton in the future. That is the worst officiating that I have seen in a long, long, long time. I usually don't have a problem with Hightower, but those first two fouls that he called on Coleman were aweful. I have no idea what they were doing. They let them play, but they were inconsistent and I have no idea where some of their calls came from. The turning point was the no call on the 10 second call because we had the turnover and could have cut it to one possession, but they didn't call it and Tolliver got the easy dunk. For those that are interested the refs were: Officials: Ed Hightower, Jd Collins, and Randy Mccall. We really need to get our act together because we have 3 very difficult games coming up now.

Stout didn't hedge a screen the entire night on Funk leaving Josten and Ahlegbe trailing over the top of screens. Also when Creighton called time out with like 9 seconds left in the shot clock, Funk comes back to in bound the ball. At that point I don't think he'd inbounded the ball the whole night? I turn to my buddy at the bar say, "Funk passes it in, gets the return pass takes two dribble and hits a 15 footer." I knew it was coming, yet the defender trailed him the whole way. Is there a lack of basketball IQ at times?

The officiating sucked both ways so most need to realize that the three officials did not make or break the game. I'm not specific on the 10 second violation as the ball had left the players hand as the shot clock hit 25 but they may have held CU 10 seconds in the back court but it took all of 2 1/2 seconds for Tolliver to stuff it home putting the exclamation point on a hard fought well deserved road win.

Also, don't you think that it's almost stupid to hate someone with a passion because they're good at their craft?

[Purple For Life]

I'm just really bummed out. I'm not a drinker, but I sure felt like I needed one tonight.

[MediaPanther]

BM,
Jordan is not redshirting because if we run into foul trouble with Coleman and Stout we only have one post sub. He should not be taking Koch's minutes...their games are completely different and Koch is much quicker than Jordan no matter how long his arms are. The game experience Jordan gets this year...even if it's not much....will be priceless when he expected to contribute full time next year. He's not a 10 and 10 guy this year, but I sure hope he'll be ready to next year. He needs a year of coming off the bench to get used to the style and tempo of the game since his jump from high school to college was a really big one.

[Schack]

It's certainly indicative of a bad night when the highlight of the game turns out to be the introduction of the Homecoming Queen from 1940. By the way, did anyone think the sound system was better tonight.

[joecooll6]

Ive had a few brews but I STILL THINK THE OFFICIATING was terrible. I dont care how bad we played, every time we got some MO, the refs would take it away.

[PantherHawk]

tough loss, maybe we aint as good as we thought we were. dropping 2 games we should won. the pressure is now on, we go to MO State which is the hottest team in the Mo Valley. UNI chances are not looking good, we get into a rut and it will be tough to dig our way out of it. The players really need to wake up and start playing, they are getting way too cocky early in the season. Stupid losses, and that's what will cost us in the long run!

[KaBullseye15]

worst officiated game ive ever seen, the one ref couldnt tell his head from his a$$, they might be joined for all we know. either way we blew the first half, couldnt hit a shot. but in retrospect this is the panthers team we should expect, could take a big lead in the valley, blow it to a subpar team on the road, then a good team comes to town and we blow that too. same song different verse, start good, end poorly. this isnt the end but as history shows, the next month is gonna be rough

[BMPanther]

Jordan can't be that much slower than Koch. And explain why all relavent stats are in Jordan's favor even though he plays half the time of Koch. I think he needs more PT, or a redshirt. Let Everett be the backup post if he only gets 7 minutes of PT a game.

[4N6]

If I hear any more Nate Funk bashing, I'm going to throw-up. The kids is a stud, and I for one missed seeing him last year. He is ALWAYS in the game, has a sweet fade-away shot, and moves constantly. Get off his back.

[UNI92]

Funk is the real deal. He was the best player on the court last night and made great plays when his team needed it.

I think he may be the top NBA prospect in the Valley.
He can handle the ball, pass, shoot, create his own shot, and has a lot of basketball savvy.
He is an assassin at clutch time too.

[BCPanther]

Funk sure would have looked good in purple and gold... WAY TO GO MAC!!!

[Purple For Life]

Man, we couldn't hit the broad side of a barn in that first half. Yargh.

[MediaPanther]

Jordan can't be that much slower than Koch. And explain why all relavent stats are in Jordan's favor even though he plays half the time of Koch. I think he needs more PT, or a redshirt. Let Everett be the backup post if he only gets 7 minutes of PT a game.

Jordan is only averaging 0.3 more points per game, 0.1 more rebounds, and doesn't have an assist all season. Most of his minutes have been against weaker competition with smaller post players. Koch's minutes have been against better teams, so comparing averages are meaningless. Koch's going to be a superstar and I sure hope I am saying the same about Jordan in the next couple years. Don't get me wrong...I think he's going to be incredible, but I just don't think he needs to take any minutes from Adam.

[Cobra 23]

I can't believe Ed Hightower is still allowed in the state of Iowa! He is the worst official I have ever seen. There were so many horrible calls that it is hard to put a finger on a specific one, but if I had to there was the out of bounds call when we were down 39-37 I believe. There guy drives the lane and we tip the ball into his knee and it clearly goes out of bounds off of him. On the ensuing position Funk drains a 3 and that really changed everything.

Funk is an absolute stud and Tolliver dominated Stout down low in the first half. It is just too bad that UNI was not given a fair chance in the second half, especially late in the game. During our traps with 50 seconds left #3 clearly palmed the ball, instead 5 seconds later they get a timeout, 35 seconds left in the game there should have been a 10 second call, 20 seconds left they step out of bounds and are given a timeout instead. And not that it matters much, but a player is only given 10 seconds to shot a free throw and Tolliver was taking at least that much. Not that they'd call it, but one refree is suppose to at least be counting and in watching for that none of the refrees were moving their arms like they should to show they are counting. Just a very very very poorly officiated game on top of a very poorly played first 10 minutes of the game from UNI.