WNUR’s Greg Mroz (@wizard_of_mroz) examines what would happen if the Big Ten Tournament started today. If the season ended today, you would have an interesting hodgepodge of matchups to begin the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis. Michigan would be the number one seed for the second time in three years, while Michigan State would claim the number two seed. There
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WNUR’s Greg Mroz (@wizard_of_mroz) recaps the past weekend in Big Ten basketball and looks forward to the home stretch. What do we know right now? Not that much. Everyone keeps beating up on everyone else. And then there are the upsets, like Nebraska going into East Lansing and beating the 9th ranked Spartans. Michigan lost as well on Sunday, getting
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WNUR’s Michael Stern (@MichaelJStern23) looks back at a past Michigan State championship team and provides an injury update for tonight’s game. I’ve already covered Michigan State in a then-and-now preview, but Northwestern travels to East Lansing to face the Spartans again Thursday night. For a different look at the Spartans, I found out where some members of Tom Izzo’s 1999-200
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WNUR’s Greg Mroz (@wizard_of_mroz) matches top Big Ten basketball teams with Eddie Murphy flicks. He’s the master of comedy, even to this day. Eddie Murphy is a once in a generation actor and comedian. You sit down, and you are immediately captivated by his performances, good or bad. Now granted, there have been some bad Eddie Murphy movies, but most
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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 Michael Stern (@MichaelJStern23) previews each of Northwestern’s opponents by looking at how each team did for the first few years under their current head coach. Today: Michigan State and Tom Izzo. As a “NU” era begins at Northwestern, Chris Collins and the Wildcats are encountering some struggles in Collins’ first year at the helm. The Illinois win was Collins’
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) prepares Northwestern students and fans for the Wildcats’ upset bid against #4 Michigan State. Welcome to the first edition of Feed the Post, a new breed of sports journalism. Feed the Post is all about giving the people what they want. There’s probably a fancy name for that, but I barely passed
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WNUR’s Alex Lederman explains how the Wildcats lost 30-6 to Michigan State on Saturday. Northwestern once dreamed of setting foot on the turf of sunny Pasadena, gazing at the thousands of fans who packed the stadium on this New Year’s Day to cheer on their beloved Wildcats in the Rose Bowl; those dreams are long gone. NU was officially eliminated
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) uses EA Sports NCAA Football 14 to predict a winner for Saturday’s Northwestern-Michigan State matchup. Not even EA Sports predicted that Northwestern would struggle as much as they struggled in real life through six Big Ten games. On the other side, Michigan State is not quite as good in the game as
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