NU 86 Mississippi Valley State 64 (F)
On the surface it sounds like a good win. Not true. It wasn't a bad win. It was just a non-event statistically speaking. Essentially went as predicted by kenpom.
The offense looked a tad better and the defense a wee bit worse. And one could split hairs to say that NU did better than expected without JerShon Cobb who was out with a mild ankle sprain. Meh. The kenpom overall rating needle was unchanged. That is hard to do and in and of itself noteworthy.
Next up: Brown. NU is predicted to win 69-64. We don't have a good feeling about this one.