Wisconsin-Marquette thoughts

In Chicago for the Zima family Christmas celebration, and missed much of the second half of yesterday's game chasing around Will and my cousin's son Niko.

Probably for the best, would have been hard to watch. From the elevator I saw repeated close-ups of Wes Matthews Sr., which made me throw up in my mouth.

We got beat by a better team that played better than us in a game where we didn't play that bad. Credit to Marquette, they've got a chance at a realy nice year. Thoughts:

-Dominic James was awesome. Still think you should just let him shoot jumpers, but his penetration really broke us down.

-They outrebounded us 41-34, which should not happen. Burke and Barro had 21 points combined, which should not happen.

-Butch played well, as did Leuer. Landry only took six shots. Hughes had 16 but really struggled, 4-15 from the field and 7-13 from the line, he never looked comfortable.

-Don't see turnover numbers right now, but we had a lot, didn't handle their pressure well.

-Liked how Bo adjusted the starting lineup to fit the opponent rather than being stubborn, even though it didn't make much of a difference.