WNUR’s Josh Burton (@Josh_Burton1) looks back at Northwestern’s first road win of the season, a 69-56 beat-down of Brown. After a less-than-convincing season-opening win on Friday night at home against Houston Baptist, the Northwestern Wildcats dominated—for almost 40 minutes—the Brown Bears on Monday night at Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island, winning by a final score of 69-56. On
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Chris Collins and Northwestern’s Men’s Basketball team open play Friday night at a renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena against Houston Baptist. WNUR’s Jason Dorow (@jasondorow) and Ben Goren (@BenG412) break down Northwestern men’s hoops on a podcast, available at our Soundcloud site by following the link below: https://soundcloud.com/wnur-sports/wnur-sports-mens-basketball-preview-2014-2015
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) tells the story of the 2013-2014 Northwestern men’s basketball team. Okay, okay, the season isn’t over yet. But with game #30 of the season coming up tomorrow, we have more than enough content to look back on to fondly tell the story of the 2013-2014 season. Since everything is better with GIFs,
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) explains why Northwestern fans have reason to be happy and hopeful. Normally, this is a basketball column. However, the Northwestern men’s team has lost five in a row and the women have lost six in a row. The last time either team won was February 1st, when the men’s team beat Minnesota.
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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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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, WNUR co-Sport Director Joe Misulonas examines this year’s football and basketball recruiting classes. Yesterday, Pat Fitzgerald and the Northwestern Wildcats announced their 2014 recruiting class. There were no Signing Day surprises, and many consider this year’s class to be the best of the Fitzgerald-era. Most of the 2014 signees were recruited following last
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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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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) picks a dog breed that looks like each member of Northwestern’s basketball team. This season was supposed to be a lost one for Northwestern men’s basketball. After starting conference play 0-3, it looked clear that Chris Collins’s squad was in a year of transition. To cheer me up, I started wondering which
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WNUR’s Greg Mroz (@wizard_of_mroz) returns with the first edition of this year’s weekly look around the Big Ten. So here’s the scoop y’all, its ballin’ time again, and I’m going to give it to you in the coolest way possible. Six of the twelve teams, short, sweet, and to the point. But we like to keep it with a theme,
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WNUR’s Jason Dorow (@jasondorow) looks at how Chris Collins has built a top-25 recruiting class in his first year at Northwestern. As college basketball’s early signing period opens and high school stars around the country begin to pen their national letters of intent, the Northwestern hoops program is already seeing signs of the improvement in the “NU era”. Northwestern’s 2014
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