In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, WNUR Sports co-Director Joe Misulonas looks at the players returning to next year’s Northwestern men’s basketball team and evaluates whether they have to earn their playing time. As the Northwestern men’s basketball season winds down and Chris Collins’ debut year comes to a close, it’s time to look to next year’s team. Unless
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, WNUR Sports co-Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) takes a look back at the state of Northwestern sports ten years ago in honor of Kanye West’s debut album. This week marked the tenth anniversary of Kanye West’s debut album, “The College Dropout.” The album immediately made an impression with it’s blend of soul, old school R&B,
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) explains how most important pop songs of 2013 were actually about Northwestern basketball. Get Lucky: The Record of the Year at this year’s Grammys is about a universal desire: winning basketball games. That’s definitely what it’s about, right? Anyone who stuck through both overtimes of Northwestern’s win against Purdue stayed up late,
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, WNUR co-Sports Director Joe Misulonas examines the role of Northwestern’s Junior point guard Dave Sobolewski The Fate of Dave Sobolewski On Saturday, the Northwestern Men’s Basketball faces the Iowa Hawkeyes for the second time this season. Last time these two teams played each other, Iowa won easily, 93-67. Iowa beat a top ten
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Earlier today, Chris Collins was introduced as the new basketball coach of the Northwestern Men’s Basketball team. Seth Bernstein got an exclusive interview with Coach Collins after the press conference. Click on the link below to take you to the interview. Welcome to the new era in Northwestern Men’s Basketball! Click here to listen to our WNUR Exclusive Interview with
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In case you missed it, click here to check out this week’s edition of The SportsVoice. The show begins 55 seconds into the file. Hosts Joe Misulonas, Tralon Williams and Ben Oreskes assess the firing of Northwestern men’s basketball head coach Bill Carmody, discuss the future of the program and debate which direction NU should look for its next coach.
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In a letter addressed to Northwestern Athletic Director Jim Phillips, Ben Goren explains why Bill Carmody should keep his job as head coach of the basketball team. Dear Jim Phillips, This year was bad. Really bad. 13-19, only four conference wins and nine straight losses was hard to watch and a massive disappointment for a team that came in to
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look back at the 2012-13 Northwestern University Wildcats men’s basketball season, handing out his award for team MVP and recapping the highlights and lowlights. So, the 2012-13 Northwestern men’s basketball season was a bit painful. You know what else is painful? Being a Cubs fan, seeing offensive linemen run shirtless and watching
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, Joe Misulonas explains why Northwestern will have a much harder time matching the successes of other small basketball programs like Butler and VCU. As the men’s basketball season comes to a close, the speculation about Bill Carmody’s future with the team will begin. Will Northwestern give him another year with Drew Crawford and
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) explains why the Northwestern Wildcats should not fire head basketball coach Bill Carmody after a disappointing season. Dr. Jim Phillips, if you are reading this, a) why? b) I love you c) don’t fire Bill Carmody. This comes after a recent Sippin’ on Purple poll in which 56% of fans said they believe Carmody
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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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