Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Quick Hits, Feb. 28, 2012: Way Too Many Talk About Living on the Edge

Quite a few articles discussing the fact that NU has never made it to the NCAA Tournament. Here's a nice listing of today's news for ya.

ESPN Blogger Ryan Feldman details the Cats' last two weeks living on the edge of the NCAA bubble, complete with brief histories of the previous three seasons where we kept falling short.

Our old buddy at the Chicago Tribune, Teddy Greenstein, writes about what the team needs to do these next two weeks in order to make the Field of 68. (Hmm, looks very similar to my own post last night...)

Apparently we're a big enough story that USA Today is covering us. See the related article here.

In an Athlon Sports questionnaire article about the biggest pressure-cooker stories of the week, one writer mentions us as the story to watch.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012: We can all start 0-0.

Welcome back to our not-so-regularly scheduled blogging of Bleed Wildcat Purple. It's been, oh, a little over a year since I did this thing. Unfortunately, a little thing called "life" got in the way, and I found myself unable to take any time at all to keep working on the blog. I hope you understand. At any rate, I have a night to myself, so I figured I could dust this thing off and try to start it up, even for just a little bit. I'm not sure whether to call my first NU blogging experience a success or failure, but regardless, today is a new day, and perhaps this blog will be a new(er) blog.

As Coach Fitz always states, "We're 0-0 at the start of every week." That's basically where the 'Cats basketball team stands right now, working to play into the Field of 68 for their first-ever Big Dance (that's the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, for those of you just tuning in, like me). We have two games to go in the regular season -- one home, one away -- and then we get into Big Ten Tournament time. Suffice it to say that we probably need to go 3-2 in order to make the tournament. Here's the upcoming slate: