Northwestern football trekked up to Lakeside Field for open practice number two on Saturday. In front of BTN cameras, the Wildcats went through a pretty standard practice, full of individual drills, some 7-on-7, and a pretty substantial amount of 11-on-11 work. Here are our takeaways. Lakeside Field was a cool venue. Putting the event in front of a smaller amount
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With the Big Ten conference season coming to a close, Greg Mroz makes some key judgements about all of the Big Ten’s top teams in this week’s edition of Big Ten Ballin’: The Hardwood Hustlers. Volume 5: Burning Down The House The Big Ten has become the foundation of upsets the past few weeks in college basketball. Indiana and Michigan
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In this week’s edition of Kis This, Zack Kisfalusi tries to find the reasons behind Northwestern’s continued offensive struggles. Rock Bottom This Northwestern team has reached a new low after getting beat down on Sunday by the Purdue Boilermakers. With no one scoring in double digits, the offensive struggles continued for the entire team as even Reggie Hearn started forcing
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In this week’s edition of Kis This, Sports Director Zach Kisfalusi analyzes the effectiveness of Northwestern’s Princeton offense and wonders if some changes are necessary for Northwestern to have future success. Princeton or Northwestern that is the question Generating offense has been a problem all season for this year’s edition of Wildcats. Is it the youth, the lack of a
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, Joe Misulonas takes a look at the many challenges Northwestern basketball coach Bill Carmody has faced this season. With 1:30 left in the Northwestern-Ohio State game last night, the Wildcats trailed by only two points. This is incredible, considering the team was without both freshman center Alex Olah, a seven-footer who had come
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WNUR Web Director Eric Klaus recaps Northwestern’s blowout victory over Illinois. On Saturday afternoon, Northwestern and Illinois renewed their annual rivalry for the 106th time. A game that looked like a mismatch on paper, turned out to be an even bigger mismatch on the field. Illinois got off to quick start, driving 78 yards on the game’s opening possession to
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With Northwestern in the midst of a potentially special season, WNUR Web Director Eric Klaus looks back at one of the most successful teams in Northwestern history: the 1949 Rose Bowl Champions. On New Year’s Day 1949, the Northwestern Wildcats beat the California Golden Bears 20-14 to do something that no other Northwestern team has ever done: win a bowl
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As part of a new series, WNUR’s Justin Nam (@namjustin) goes behind the scenes to profile Northwestern men’s and women’s basketball players. First up, men’s star forward and senior leader, Drew Crawford. Name: Drew Crawford Jersey Number: #1 Position: Forward Basketball season is right around the corner folks. After coming so close to the first ever Northwestern bid into the
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WNUR’s Greg Mroz discusses the Leaders and Legends division races in Volume 10 of his weekly column, B1G Ten Ballin’. Volume 10: Through The Looking Glass With week 10 of the Big Ten season upon us, we can now start to understand where this conference is going. The conference is having a down year and as a result, the Big
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WNUR’s Nick Scoliard recaps Northwestern’s homecoming game victory over Iowa. Well, it wouldn’t be a Northwestern game if it didn’t come down to the fourth quarter. As close as it seemed, the ‘Cats held off the surging Hawkeyes to claim a 28-17 victory heading into a much needed bye week. The ‘Cats were up by 25 in the middle of
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WNUR’s Tralon Williams previews Northwestern’s homecoming game against Iowa. The ‘Cats are 6-2, JA Adande is the Homecoming Grand Marshall and the first round of midterms are coming to an end. Needless to say the spirits in Evanston are running rather high. Well if your good spirits are in full swing right now, I recommend that you stop reading this
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at Northwestern’s 44-29 victory over the Indiana Hoosiers Saturday by the numbers with his three up and three down of the week. Right when you think you know the 2012 Northwestern Wildcat, they gently remind you that you are still that dumb former statistics major that wore a size 22 purple dress
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