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By Austin Rayamajhi<\/span><\/p>\n Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (1-1, 0-0 PL) was crushed by Northwestern Wildcats Men\u2019s Basketball (2-0, 0-0 B1G) in a 76-52 loss at the Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers were hoping to pull off the upset against one of two power conference teams they play this season and to build on their season-opening win against Northeastern, but the Wildcats completed a wire-to-wire victory against the visitors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not shocked,\u201d said BU Head Coach Joe Jones. \u201cWe were unorganized, and we had no idea what we were doing tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers’ first two possessions resulted in turnovers, leading to a quick timeout from Jones less than a minute into the game. The Wildcats were able to get off to a hot start thanks to turnovers from BU and junior guard Jayden Reid, who scored seven of Northwestern\u2019s first 11 points.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers were stifled by Northwestern. After scoring four points in the first three minutes, BU failed to score until the 9:27 mark of the first half, leading to a 13-0 run from Northwestern, ballooning their lead to 15 points through the first portion of the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sloppiness was a theme for the Terriers in the first half as they committed eight turnovers and shot 31% from the field. BU went into halftime trailing by 19 points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe game came down to our poor offensive execution,\u201d said Jones. \u201cWe were playing against an opponent with size and length, and that was going to impact us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers were unable to cut into the lead in the second half as they struggled to handle the Wildcats\u2019s press. Northwestern opened the half on a 15-4 run, pushing their lead to 30 points, their largest of the game, with under 13 minutes left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n BU was unable to string together a run in the second half, as the closest they got after falling behind by 30 points was a 21-point deficit with two minutes left in the game. The Terriers never had a win probability higher than 0.9% in the second half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Northwestern was led by senior forward Nick Martinelli, who finished with a team-high 20 points and 9 rebounds, as well as the aforementioned Reid, who contributed 17 points and 8 assists. Junior guard Michael McNair was the only BU player to score double digits, finishing the game with 20 points on 6-10 shooting from 3-point range.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 24-point loss by the Terriers is reminiscent of their loss to fellow B1G school UCLA last season. BU lost that game by 31 and committed 28 turnovers. Tonight the Terriers lost by 24 with 14 turnovers.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been coaching for a long time,\u201d said Jones. \u201cWe are not close to where we need to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n BU will host their first game of the season at Case Gym against Ivy League opponent Brown on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m., with the game available to stream on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featured image by Troy Bolduc By Austin Rayamajhi Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (1-1, 0-0 PL) was crushed by Northwestern Wildcats Men\u2019s Basketball (2-0, 0-0 B1G) in a 76-52 loss at the Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston.\u00a0\u00a0 The Terriers were hoping to pull off the upset against one of two power conference teams they play this season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1027,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51060,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions\/51060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}