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Northwestern Battles Minnesota Wednesday at Allstate Arena
1/9/2018 4:02:00 PM | Men's Basketball
| NORTHWESTERN BASKETBALL: GAME DAY INFORMATION | |||||
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME | LOCATION | BROADCAST | LIVE STATS |
| Wed., Jan. 10 | Minnesota | 8 p.m. | Allstate Arena; Rosemont, Ill. |
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| Radio: ESPN 1000 (Dave Eanet and Joey Meyer) TV: BTN (Dave Revsine and Jon Crispin) Social: Twitter (@NUMensBball and @NU_SportsLIVE) | Instagram (@numensbball) | Facebook Game Notes: Northwestern | Minnesota TICKETS |
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Coach Collins Preview | B. McIntosh
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Northwestern and Minnesota square in the first of two meetings over a two-week span Wednesday as they meet up at Allstate Arena. Tip time is set for 8 p.m.
Tickets are available online at NUsports.com, by calling 888-GO-PURPLE or in person at the Allstate Arena Ticket Office.
Northwestern (10-7, 1-3) is coming off a 78-63 loss at Penn State last Friday despite getting 18 points from Bryant McIntosh. The loss snapped the Wildcats' four-game winning streak at Bryce Jordan Center.
McIntosh enters Wednesday's game with 637 career assists, two shy of matching Michigan State's Denzel Valentine for 10th place in Big Ten history.
Wednesday's matchup features two of the top offensive rebounders in the Big Ten. Minnesota's Jordan Murphy leads the league with an average of 4.9 offensive boards per game while NU's Dererk Pardon is tied for second at 3.1 per game.
Pardon ranks fifth in the Big Ten with a .594 field goal percentage this season and is NU's all-time leader with a .613 career field goal percentage. Pardon also leads the team with an average of 6.7 rebounds per contest, including posting a season-high 15 boards against Nebraska Jan. 2. Pardon's 11 offensive rebounds against the Cornhuskers are tied for the second most by a Division I player in a game this season, trailing only the 12 by Hofstra's Rokas Gustys against Siena Nov. 25.
Northwestern has won five of the last seven meetings with Minnesota. The Golden Gophers won the lone matchup between the teams last season, 70-66, Jan. 5, 2017 in Evanston despite NU getting a game-high 21 points from McIntosh.
Scouting Minnesota
The Golden Gophers (13-4, 2-2 B1G) are coming off a 75-71 home loss to Indiana on Saturday. Nate Mason led Minnesota with 22 points and 9 assists while Jordan Murphy and Dupree McBrayer contributed 18 points apiece. Murphy has posted a double-double in each of the team's first 17 games this season and leads the Big Ten with an average of 12.7 rebounds per game and the team with 18.9 points per contest.
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