Football Preview: Week Five vs. Michigan

Northwestern will host Michigan at Ryan Field on September 29.
Read moreNorthwestern will host Michigan at Ryan Field on September 29.
Read moreThe Northwestern Wildcats (9-13, 2-6) dropped a hard-fought matchup against the #14 Maryland Terrapins (18-3, 7-1) by a score of 68-65 on Thursday night at historic Beardsley Gymnasium. Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah battled injuries en route to yet another double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds, while teammate Lindsey Pulliam finished with 19 points to lead all scorers. Despite Maryland shooting just
Read moreIn their first true home game at historic Beardsley Gym in the 2017-18 season, the Northwestern Wildcats (2-0) took down the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies (1-1) by a score of 88-70. Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah and Abi Scheid led the way for the Wildcats, who used fast-paced offense and abused their size advantage on the glass, and down low in general to
Read moreChoo choo! That’s not the sound of a Boilermaker train, but rather the sound of Northwestern football’s win train, reaching stop number five this weekend with a 23-13 win over Purdue at Ryan Field. If you missed the Wildcats’ dominant performance, we’ve got you covered with highlights of the call by our own Henrique DaMour and Matt McHugh. Take a
Read moreBack and rearing to go through the fall sports gauntlet and beyond, Calls of the Week brings you this past week’s highlights of Wildcat athletics from our own Will Greer, Austin Miller and Zach Koons. Get caught up with the best of the best right here before this weekend’s huge set of games gets underway:
Read moreThe Wildcats rolled to a high-scoring victory last year in East Lansing and will try to repeat against a Michigan State team trying to rebound from a disastrous 2016 an return to its former glory. Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Spartan squad. Background Last year was a forgettable one for Spartan football fans. Their seven-game losing
Read moreNorthwestern finished up a sweep of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Friday, and in doing so clinched a spot in the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 2010. We’ve got your highlights from the Wildcats’ regular season finale as well as an interview with coach Dusty Napoleon.
Read moreWe’re back with our Calls of the Week. Relive Northwestern women’s soccer’s goal against the Mexican U-20 national team, baseball’s games against Michigan State and Notre Dame, and lacrosse’s matchup against top-ranked Maryland.
Read moreNorthwestern baseball slugger Joe Hoscheit can continued his tear through the Big Ten with a fantastic showing this week against UW-Milwaukee and in the Penn State series, batting .400 with six hits, seven RBI, three runs scored and a home run in four games en route to his second consecutive Big Ten Player of the Week award. Hoscheit leads the team
Read moreAfter a brief hiatus, Calls of the Week is back and chock-full of great calls and highlights from around Wildcat athletics in the last two weeks. Listen as a bevy of our broadcasters take you through the most exciting moments from baseball’s scalding hot stretch, a huge women’s lacrosse victory over Duke, softball’s sweep of Purdue and MORE.
Read moreNorthwestern’s furious comeback in the late innings wasn’t enough to salvage the series against in-state rivals Illinois. Joe Hoscheit had himself a day, going 3-for-4 with 3 runs scored en route to earning himself Big Ten Player of the Week honors for Northwestern. Recap game three of this weekend’s set plus a post-game interview with head coach Spencer Allen.
Read moreMake that five wins in their last seven, including the first conference game win and series win, coming against Iowa this past weekend. Recap the week’s highlights from Northwestern baseball’s hot streak as called by our broadcasters.
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