By Kendall Wright After pulling off an upset for the ages in overtime last week against the Minnesota Golden Gophers, the Northwestern Wildcats (2-2, 1-1 B1G) stay at Ryan Field to play the No. 6 Penn State Nittany Lions (4-0, 2-0 B1G) to close out the month of September. Penn State enters this matchup coming off a shutout victory against
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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: Penn State and Patrick Chambers. There are then and now success stories everywhere across the Big Ten conference: from Tom Crean at Indiana to Tom Izzo at Michigan State, there are several examples
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WNUR’s Ben Goren (@BenG412) examines last night’s win for Northwestern women’s basketball and looks ahead to their Sunday matchup against Penn State. Northwestern basketball completed a season sweep at Assembly Hall last night, as the women dished the Hoosiers their 6th loss of the year by a score of 58-52, while the Wildcats improved to 14-7 and an impressive 4-4
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at Northwestern’s 39-28 loss to Penn State Saturday and explains why Wildcat should still be optimistic about the rest of the season. If you’re anything like me (and I pray to all of the possible higher powers that you aren’t), Saturday was probably a pretty rough day for you. How do you recover
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