Northwestern 64 ORU 55

[theeagleman5]

ORU falls again at Northwestern by 9.....Ihim had 21 points to lead ORU but the Eagles got 0 points off the bench.....the Wildcats jumped out to a 14-1 lead and were never headed....ORU falls to 0-2 with the Mayors Cup vs. TU coming up next on Thursday night at Mabee Center....

[BlueGold]

Not so sure it's a terrible thing to have your starters score all of your points, but it obviously wasn't enough, again.

The stats bear out, again, how ugly it was for us... 31% shooting, just under 17% from three, 8 missed free throws (14-22, 63.6%).  

This was a winnable game, they shot 37% from the field, and we held them to 64 points, so thankfully our defense did improve from the Iowa game.

As Eagleman said, our bench didn't score, and didn't score in a combined total of 45 minutes played.  Went 0-10 from the field.  Not sure we've ever gone through a game without getting a single point from our bench.

It doesn't appear that we have any inside game to speak of at this point.  This doesn't count our players going from outside the paint into the paint and scoring, just reflecting who our supposed 'bigs' are and what little we're getting from them.  Granted, Maria Marti and Alexa Scott haven't played yet this season, if and when they do this will hopefully get better.

Onward and upward.