UNI basketball season ends with loss to St. John's in NCAA Tournament
The Northern Iowa Panthers got off to a poor start in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and lost against St. John's and coach Rick Pitino.
SAN DIEGO – Trey Campbell came a long way from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to get to this point. He even made another valiant push to take it ever farther here Friday when he led No. 12-seed Northern Iowa in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament against No.
5-seed St. John’s. But something was definitely off for him and the Panthers right from the start.
They couldn’t hit shots. They couldn’t slow down the game the way they normally do. In the end, they couldn’t win, falling to the Red Storm 79-53 on March 20.
Campbell, UNI’s senior guard, led UNI with 14 points. “It wasn’t what we anticipated, I would say,” UNI head coach Ben Jacobson said afterward. “Man, we’ve got a good basketball team.