A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 10: The Game

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Of course, the main reason we were in DeKalb at the Convo Center was to see the men's basketball game.  NIU was 15-11 (8-5 in the MAC) while our opponent, Central Michigan, was 13-12 (6-6 in the MAC).  NIU had lost the last two games on the road.

This year, Northern is either winning or losing by close scores.   Since January 18, close scores have been:

L 64-66,  W 61-59, W 66-61, W 57-54, L 59-63, L 60-65, W 82-81, W 73-71, L 69-72.

And, we were to enjoy the whole game from the Victor E. Pub.  The game stayed close the first half and NIU had a 32-27 lead at half.

For both the women's and men's games, at half time they had a three member family on unicycles performing all sorts of how'd-they-do-that stunts out on the court, including the man who got on a huge unicycle where his seat was at the basketball rim level and looked as if he was going to fall off many times with forward and backwards tilts as well as juggling three bowling pins.

At this time, I have to say something about the NIU court at the Convo Center.  It is mostly painted black with a Huskie face imprinted upon it.  I don't much care for it.  Kind of reminds me of that horrible blue football field at Boise State.

--RoadHuskie