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Gophers (1-3) Host Northwestern (2-2).
Nia Coffey makes her last appearance at Williams arena in her final attempt to get the Wildcats back to the NCAA tournament. (The Wildcats played in the 2015 NCAA). Last season, the Gophers won 95-92 at Williams. The Gophers 16 point lead during the third quarter evaporated as Northwestern tied it at 74 entering the fourth. It was a shootout from there. The return match in Evanston was a 2 OT, Banham gets 60!!!, thriller drawing national attention. However, the Wildcats got some revenge in the B1G tournament 84-74.
The Wildcats have height. But you can’t forget the B1Gs all time thief, 5’4”Ashley Deary. Deary already has 11 steals in her first four B1G games. Sticking up for Northwestern’s bigs, 6’2” Lauren Douglas has contributed 10 steals. To me, Deary’s rebounding is even more annoying than her steals; no one pursues the ball harder.
Fortunately, Nia Coffey is foul prone: in four B1G games, she’s picked up 16 fouls.
Wins: @ Nebraska 62-58; Purdue, 76-60.
Losses: Ohio State, 94-87; @ Maryland, 96-65.
The Nebraska win was a battle: The Wildcats led 58-55 with four minutes remaining and both teams went almost the final four minutes without scoring. Against Purdue, Northwestern’s one good quarter, 19-7, gave them the cushion they needed.
Against Ohio State, Northwestern trailed 90-87 with 34 seconds remaining. Against Maryland they had nothing.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2017/...etball-no-3-maryland-rolls-past-northwestern/
The opening two minutes of Saturday’s game at Maryland didn’t go well for Northwestern.
The Wildcats turned the ball over on each of their first three possessions, and the Terrapins answered with a bucket each time. Before ever attempting a field goal, NU trailed 6-0.
Unfortunately for the Cats, the remaining 38 minutes didn’t go much better. Senior Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored 18 points, leading five Maryland players in double figures as the No. 3 Terrapins (15-1, 3-0 Big Ten) routed NU (13-4, 2-2) 96-65 Saturday in College Park.
“I think we’re a much better team than we showed,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We just didn’t do a good job defensively of staying in front of them and that was the difference.”
Probable Starters (B1G stats):
Nia Coffey: 6’1” F Sr (21.3 point/game; 8.5 rebounds/game)
Lauren Douglas: 6’2” F Sr. (11.0 p/g)
Ashley Deary: 5’4” G Sr. (9.0 p/g; 4.8 r/g and 7.3 assists/game)
Allie Tuttle: 6’4” F Sr (Mckeown must have his reasons)
Christen Inman: 5’10” G Sr. (15.3 p/g)
Others:
Abi Scheid: 6’2” F Fr. (9.8 p/g and 4.5 r/g)
Abbie Wolf: 6'4" F Fr (5.0 p/g)
Nia Coffey makes her last appearance at Williams arena in her final attempt to get the Wildcats back to the NCAA tournament. (The Wildcats played in the 2015 NCAA). Last season, the Gophers won 95-92 at Williams. The Gophers 16 point lead during the third quarter evaporated as Northwestern tied it at 74 entering the fourth. It was a shootout from there. The return match in Evanston was a 2 OT, Banham gets 60!!!, thriller drawing national attention. However, the Wildcats got some revenge in the B1G tournament 84-74.
The Wildcats have height. But you can’t forget the B1Gs all time thief, 5’4”Ashley Deary. Deary already has 11 steals in her first four B1G games. Sticking up for Northwestern’s bigs, 6’2” Lauren Douglas has contributed 10 steals. To me, Deary’s rebounding is even more annoying than her steals; no one pursues the ball harder.
Fortunately, Nia Coffey is foul prone: in four B1G games, she’s picked up 16 fouls.
Wins: @ Nebraska 62-58; Purdue, 76-60.
Losses: Ohio State, 94-87; @ Maryland, 96-65.
The Nebraska win was a battle: The Wildcats led 58-55 with four minutes remaining and both teams went almost the final four minutes without scoring. Against Purdue, Northwestern’s one good quarter, 19-7, gave them the cushion they needed.
Against Ohio State, Northwestern trailed 90-87 with 34 seconds remaining. Against Maryland they had nothing.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2017/...etball-no-3-maryland-rolls-past-northwestern/
The opening two minutes of Saturday’s game at Maryland didn’t go well for Northwestern.
The Wildcats turned the ball over on each of their first three possessions, and the Terrapins answered with a bucket each time. Before ever attempting a field goal, NU trailed 6-0.
Unfortunately for the Cats, the remaining 38 minutes didn’t go much better. Senior Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored 18 points, leading five Maryland players in double figures as the No. 3 Terrapins (15-1, 3-0 Big Ten) routed NU (13-4, 2-2) 96-65 Saturday in College Park.
“I think we’re a much better team than we showed,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We just didn’t do a good job defensively of staying in front of them and that was the difference.”
Probable Starters (B1G stats):
Nia Coffey: 6’1” F Sr (21.3 point/game; 8.5 rebounds/game)
Lauren Douglas: 6’2” F Sr. (11.0 p/g)
Ashley Deary: 5’4” G Sr. (9.0 p/g; 4.8 r/g and 7.3 assists/game)
Allie Tuttle: 6’4” F Sr (Mckeown must have his reasons)
Christen Inman: 5’10” G Sr. (15.3 p/g)
Others:
Abi Scheid: 6’2” F Fr. (9.8 p/g and 4.5 r/g)
Abbie Wolf: 6'4" F Fr (5.0 p/g)
