Northern Illinois at Northern Iowa

I really like the experience of this Northern Iowa team, and they can play some good basketball. But something seems to be missing early on as they have struggled vs. teams they should be handling with relative ease. They have already lost to DePaul and played East Carolina to a six-point game and Denver to a six-point game - teams they should handle easily. Northern Illinois is another team they should handle easily, but at the same time, Illinois and Northwestern beat this team by just 22 and 19 points and so far this season, we haven't seen anything out of the Panthers that resemble those clubs. I believe this one is a lot more difficult than it looks, so I'll grab the points here.