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Northwestern got here near sweeping the season sequence towards arguably the nation’s greatest staff in Purdue, however misplaced a tricky one in extra time, 105-96.
The clear story popping out of this sport is the egregious free throw discrepancy and Northwestern Head Coach Chris Collins getting ejected after dropping his thoughts late within the sport.
The free throw disparity was actually insane on this sport. Purdue went to the foul line 46 instances, whereas the Wildcats solely shot eight free throws. Sure, the staff with the 7’4 star in Zach Edey goes to often win the free throw battle. In any case, he’s going to get fouled rather a lot, and groups might be much less reluctant to get the ball inside and drive to the rim with an enormous like him in there. However, 46 to eight is fairly ridiculous.
There have been some questionable calls on this one, to say the least. Check out this one.
After the sport had been misplaced for Northwestern, Chris Collins felt like he wanted to make it identified how a lot he thought the sport had been officiated unfairly.
Chris Collins will get ejected, a dramatic thriller:
1. Runs onto the courtroom throughout play2. Will get proper in ref’s face3. Must be held back4. Screams “I’M GOOD!”4. Nonetheless shakes Matt Painter’s hand5. Daps up Zach Edey6. Pumps up crowd as he exits
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— Ben Stevens (@BenScottStevens) February 1, 2024
Yeah, that’s an all-time nice tantrum by a coach. Usually I feel coaches want to chill it a little bit. However, when the foul shot disparity is 46 to eight, that’s a reasonably good cause to go nuts.
Coaches perceive they received’t get a pleasant whistle in street convention video games. However, this gave the impression to be properly throughout the road of what simply an unfriendly street whistle.
It could’ve been an enormous win for the Wildcats, too. Northwestern at the moment sits as a seven-seed in Joe Lunardi’s newest bracketology. A street win over the second-ranked NET staff in America would’ve meant that Northwestern must have an epic collapse down the stretch to overlook the NCAA Event. Thoughts you, this can be a program that has solely made the NCAA Event two instances in historical past, so back-to-back experiences can be a fairly large deal.
