UNI game thread

[shocktheheart]

Garrett got plenty of love on the ESPNU highlights.

EXCELLENT NEWS!

[pinstripers]

Only 8 assists, wow.

[WSUwatcher]

And speaking of Drake, they're now third by themselves (!) at 5-3 in conference play, RPI ranked 87th (Warren Nolan and live-rpi), despite lacking Van Deest and Uhlenhopp.

Who ARE those guys?

[ShockerFever]

Only 8 assists, wow.

THAT needs to change. Kinda like our man-to-man mentality in certain situations.

[another shocker]

Anemic crowd in Cedar Falls. Toure's shot got the biggest response.

Nice win.. I thought a loss was coming. But, man, Tuttle outplayed Stutz.

[1972Shocker]

Jenn Bates @JennBates12 54m
GREAT news, Stutz apparently just has muscle spasms in his back and shouldn't miss any time

Just muscle spasms huh. Spoken like someone who hasn't had the pleasure of the experience. The spasms can be treated. The real question is there any underlying condition or problem that is triggering the spasms. I hope Jenn is right and I am cautiously opitmistic she his. Still backs are tricky and back problems have a way of becoming chronic.

[wufan]

Anemic crowd in Cedar Falls. Toure's shot got the biggest response.

Nice win.. I thought a loss was coming. But, man, Tuttle outplayed Stutz.

Tuttle played well and was quicker than the injured Stutz.

[wufan]

Just muscle spasms huh. Spoken like someone who hasn't had the pleasure of the experience. The spasms can be treated. The real question is there any underlying condition or problem that is triggering the spasms. I hope Jenn is right and I am cautiously opitmistic she his. Still backs are tricky and back problems have a way of becoming chronic.

I was worried about a broken wrist...

[Anthroshock]

But, man, Tuttle outplayed Stutz.

In absolute figures, this is not true. But, as a freshman playing against a seasoned senior, yes he did.

[ShockerFever]

Toure's Fathead shot was No.3 on ESPNU's Top 3 plays of the night.

[shockar25]

In absolute figures, this is not true. But, as a freshman playing against a seasoned senior, yes he did.

I'm willing to give Garrett a pass on this one. I had heard on SHocker Soundoff that he was having back problems. So, it's likely he played most of the game in some sort of pain and aggravated it as the game progressed.

Overall a gritty effort from Garrett.

[KSUUWSU]

Playing through back pain is one of the hardest and most painful experiences athletes can do. Thank you Mr. Stutz for stepping up and for showing true toughness. You deserve a good nights rest. Well done.

[GoShockers89]

I think Garrett's performance in MVC play has forever buried the Fifi talk. Heckuva senior year so far.

[Aargh]

I predicted in pre-season posts that Stutz could go for 16 and 8 this year. I was thinking in terms of Valley play - really. I took a bit of abuse for being such a sunshine pumper. Stutz is beating the 8 boards, which is the big surprise. He's not quite at the 16 points in league, but the conference seems to be taking a "don't let Stutz beat you" attitude and stacking defenses to prevent entry passes, clog up the middle, and double Stutz.

That's opening up other players and Stutz is a pretty good passer with pretty good court vision. He tends to find the open player and feed them good, quick passes.

[GoShockers89]

The UNLV and CSF wins push our RPI up to .6169. Playing SIU at home will eat up about half of tonight's gains, but our SoS will be on steroids for the final 10 games after that (9 MVC + BB).

I did more than my share of whining following the Temple loss. Tonight, however, makes up for that debacle and puts us right back where I'd hoped to be at this point. Sweeping this road trip was a tall order and the team deserves a ton of credit.