2/11 - Northern Kentucky @ the ARC

[talksalot]

A reminder of the last time...

http://www.valpoathletics.com/mbasketball/news/2015-16/15184/crusader-men-wrap-up-another-dominating-road-win/#.VreHDsv2Y5s

First time for them in the ARC...

[bbtds]

Nothing is going to be easy. NKU has beaten some good teams in the conference. Not a team to be taken lightly at all.

[agibson]

First time for them in the ARC...

Listening to the arena lovers, NKU might be laughing under their breath.

Hopefully it can be loud, at least if needed!

[covufan]

Nothing is going to be easy. NKU has beaten some good teams in the conference. Not a team to be taken lightly at all.

Agreed, including their last two road games with wins @ Detroit and @ Oakland.  We need to end their road win streak!

Valpo    76
NKU      52

[valpotx]

Valpo 81
NKU 61

[historyman]

Nothing is going to be easy. NKU has beaten some good teams in the conference. Not a team to be taken lightly at all.

Yep, good to see NKU being better than expected. We wouldn't want to go around and beat a dead Norse.

[crusadermoe]

Are they a Norse to be reckoned with?

[bbtds]

Are they a Norse to be reckoned with?

They could give us a tough game and put us at the horns of a dilemma.

[agibson]

Star Wars.  Walker, Texas Ranger. Telegraphic communication. The possibilities are endless.

[VUfan]

VU 82 NKU 64  to Strong for the Norskies.     

[FWalum]

Valpo Basketball Preview for the NKU and WSU games.
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[HC]

I'm going with 79-61
Happy Valpo Game Day!

[VULB#62]

Valpo wins 75.8 to 59.8 and maintains its scoring defense average.

[bbtds]

I am so ready for some Valpo basketball!

[FWalum]

Would love to see Tevonn regain his stroke. It has been great watching Jubril gain so much confidence in his game over the last few outings, but I still think that we need Tevonn to be in that 12-15 ppg range in order for this offense to play more towards its potential.

[talksalot]

I hope the free pizza will get the students out tonight !

[VULB#62]

Weather forecast is for 15 degrees and clear. 0%-15% chance of precip.  Shouldn't prevent local people from coming out.  O/U 2,850.  I say over

[HC]

No school tomorrow either for most of the kids.

[talksalot]

Here's the NKY Game Notes... note they are celebrating their two wins over teams in the top 200 RPI for the first time...

http://www.nkunorse.com/documents/2016/2/10//NKU_MBB_GameNotes24.pdf

[VULB#62]

 Heres some more from that :

• G Tyler White joined the 1,000-point club with a driving lay-up with 15:32 left in the  rst half. He now has 1,009 points.
• White is averaging career-highs in scoring (11.1) and assists (3.9).

• F Jalen Billups led NKU against Milwaukee with 20 points, his  fth 20+ point effort this year. • Billups and White are climbing NKU's all-time scoring list. Billups ranks 20th w/ 1,136 points & White is No. 25 (1,009).
• Billups led the nation w/ 69.6% shooting last year, and is among the nation's leaders (t-10th) at 63.3% (126-199) this year.
• Billups ranks among NKU's all-time leaders in FG % (2nd, .634), blocks (5th, 123) & blocks per game (11th, 1.1).
• Billups' career 63.4 percent shooting ranks t-24th all-time in the NCAA.  HE IS A 6-6, 245# BULL. GOTTA DOUBLE DOWN ON HIM CLOSE TO THE RIM.

• G Cole Murray has made 68.6 percent (24-of-35) of his threes in the
last six games.
• Murray has had the hot hand from long range, shooting 49.2% (61-of-
124) from behind the arc this year, No. 4 (tied) in the nation.  NEED TO SHUT HIM DOWN FROM THE GET-GO

Will the previous game plan be the blue print for tonight?  Worked pretty good for a 25 point margin

[talksalot]

Deontae Cole did not play for them in the first game against us (he missed three games in a row...)... only played 4 minutes against UWM the other day; way down from the 20+ he was getting at the beginning of the year... don't know what the story is...

[Kyle321n]

• G Tyler White

1-7 from three, 0-1 from two, 4 total points, 2 assists and 2 turnovers.

• F Jalen Billups

We held him to 7-15 (46.7%). He was 4-11 in the first half when the game was kind of in doubt.

• G Cole Murray

He went 15-27 (45%) in the 4 games prior to us. We held him to 0 points and he only took 1 shot.

We did a great job on all of their key players. I expect a repeat of this result.

[VULB#62]

Re: Murray --- 15-27 is not 45%; it's  55.5%. Even better!!

[Kyle321n]

I should stop trying to do math in my head.

[a3uge]

Go Valpo!

Slow start, but great on defense, as usual.