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This NIU-EMU Game will Go Down in History as One of Mankind's Worst Crimes

By 11W Staff - 26 January 2013
17 Comments
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Here's how NIU's write-up put it:

Northern Illinois posted its best defensive effort in seven seasons allowing just 42 points on Saturday afternoon, but it came in a losing effort as the Huskies fell to Eastern Michigan, 42-25, at the EMU Convocation Center.

(emphasis added)

Well, that's one way to spin it...

Source niuhuskies.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/012613aab.html

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Comments

HolyBuckeye1093 on 26 Jan 2013 - 8:56pm #

Manti Teo scores more than NIU did.

chicagobuckeye on 27 Jan 2013 - 8:58pm #

FAAAAAAR more than NIU did

popeurban on 26 Jan 2013 - 9:39pm #

I was at the Dayton Flyers game against them this year when they held NIU to five first half points.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dayton-beats-cold-shooting-northern-illinois-60-43

tennbuckeye19 on 28 Jan 2013 - 11:57am #

Yeah, that's one of the more hilarious things about this record. NIU broke their own record of 5 points in a half from the Dayton game with this recent 4 point performance against Eastern Michigan.

45OH4IO on 26 Jan 2013 - 9:34pm #

Jeez I saw a 3rd grade girls Upward game where they put up 20....come on guys!

Buckeyevstheworld on 26 Jan 2013 - 10:11pm #

More painful than last years Bama vs LSU game? Lies!

"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.

jestertcf on 26 Jan 2013 - 10:53pm #

Their sub header should read. "Quadrupled first half points in second half."

~Because we couldn't go for three~

CALPOPPY on 27 Jan 2013 - 12:33am #

Or quintupled.

How about, "Huskies score 525% more points in the second half."

buckeyefan808 on 27 Jan 2013 - 1:10am #

I'd be so pissed if I paid for tickets to this game...

Edit: I'd be pissed it I wasted my time at this game

bigbadbuck on 27 Jan 2013 - 1:22am #

Was this a football game?..........................

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. Football is no different, the guys down in the trenches win the games, not the coach.

buckeyefan808 on 27 Jan 2013 - 1:23am #

I was just thinking that same thing.

hodge on 27 Jan 2013 - 3:54am #

vtbuckeye on 27 Jan 2013 - 8:55am #

Wife: "How does this happen? Were they doing drugs before the game? Was this a blind league? Maybe NIU is a school for the blind? That must be it, a school for the blind."

cajunbuckeye on 27 Jan 2013 - 1:08pm #

One lucky fan was fortunate enough to witness the highpowered NIU scoring attack...

An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches

buckeyedude on 27 Jan 2013 - 1:46pm #

My daughter's 5th grade CYO basketball team regularly scored more points than that.

"Here officer, hold my beer while I find my license."

buckeyemondo on 27 Jan 2013 - 4:31pm #

how long til the ncaa decides this should be investigated for point shearing? point shaving does not come close to describing this.

AndyVance on 27 Jan 2013 - 5:51pm #

Some quick trivia:

The combined 67 points scored in this game tied a record for the lowest-points scored since the advent of the 3-point line, a lowe-score that had occured twice. SMU beat Texas-Arlington 36-31 on Dec. 16, 1989, and Wisconsin-Green Bay defeated Northern Michigan 46-21 on Nov. 22, 1996.
The current record for lowest-combined score belongs to the Monmouth "blowout" of Princeton in 2005 with a whopping 62 points scored (final was 41-21).
In 2001, George Mason topped UNC-Wilmington in the final of the CAA tournament, 35-33 (68 combined points).
The Big Ten had a similarly abysmal match just a couple of seasons ago, when Penn State defeated #13 Wisconsin 36-33, setting the record for the lowest-scoring game in the history of the B1G tournament.
St. Louis holds the record for fewest points scored in game (20), a record they earned in a stinkfest 5 years ago this month.
NIU did set a record in the EMU game, however, setting the D-1 record for fewest points scored in a single half: 4. Yes, 4 points in a single half. Four. Four points. That's it. That's even worse than the 5 point Cal scored in its 2010 loss to Notre Dame. Four points. Dang.