Charlie Goldsmith
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Northwestern men’s basketball adds 2021 recruit Brooks Barnhizer
Men’s Basketball In mid-May, Chris Collins called Brooks Barnhizer out of the blue. It had been almost five months since Northwestern officially offered the 2021 prospect a scholarship and four months since Barnhizer visited campus for a game against Ohio State in January. After Barnhizer picked up the phone, Collins was direct. Northwestern had been... → Read More
Coach Pat Fitzgerald discusses cautious spending, return to play
Football Even though Pat Fitzgerald was optimistic about the prospect of playing football in September, Northwestern’s head coach said the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant financial impact on the football program and the athletic department. On May 11, Northwestern forecasted a $90 million budget shortfall due to the coronavirus. As a result, the University... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball adds 2021 recruit Julian Roper
After committing to play college basketball for Northwestern on Monday, Julian Roper started sifting through congratulatory messages. Eventually, he saw one from Tamar Bates, one of the top high school point guards in the country. Bates’ message said, “Congrats.” Roper responded, “Now you know where to be my guy!” Northwestern, of course, is the place... → Read More
Hunter Johnson struggled last season for Northwestern football
Football Hunter Johnson doesn’t want to be afraid to make mistakes anymore. After having a 2019 season to forget at Northwestern, the quarterback said he isn’t worried about all of the game-ending injuries, the losses and the interceptions that defined his sophomore campaign. “There’s good years and bad years,” Johnson said. “I’m just moving on,... → Read More
Northwestern athletics responds to coronavirus concerns
Despite uncertainty on Northwestern University’s campus surrounding COVID-19 and the school’s recent cancelation of the annual Dance Marathon event, there are no plans to cancel Northwestern men’s basketball’s home game Saturday against Penn State at Welsh-Ryan Arena. A Northwestern athletic department spokesman told The Daily the department will work closely with the University to determine... → Read More
Football: Inside Northwestern’s plans for a new-look offense in 2020
Football It didn’t even take a full day of practice for Northwestern’s new offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian to start trying to get the offense to play at a faster tempo. As the Wildcats did eleven-on-eleven drills on the first day of spring ball last week, Bajakian had one eye on the offense and one eye... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball breaks losing streak against Nebraska
Men’s Basketball As Northwestern went through a twelve-game losing streak, no player held himself more accountable than freshman guard Boo Buie. After the Wildcats had a disappointing loss to Ohio State in January, Buie stressed how there were no excuses for the team to play the way it did. And after NU lost an overtime... → Read More
Mike Bajakian’s plans for Northwestern football’s 2020 quarterback competition
Football Northwestern hired Mike Bajakian to be the team’s new offensive coordinator on Dec. 11, but he wasn’t allowed by rule to watch any of the quarterbacks throw until Tuesday. So it’s safe to say there isn’t a frontrunner yet in the quarterback competition. “We’re just trying to get an offense installed, and we haven’t... → Read More
Sixth-year quarterback TJ Green could be NU's quarterback in 2020
Football As Northwestern started warming up to open their first spring practice of 2020, head coach Pat Fitzgerald was surprised by one player in particular. Graduate quarterback TJ Green was just jogging on the sidelines, but even that had Fitzgerald in disbelief. “I didn’t think we’d see him doing anything on his feet at all,”... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball loses 83-57 to Minnesota
Men’s Basketball Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips made the long walk near the end of the first half, going from his seat at the top of Welsh-Ryan Arena’s lower bowl all the way down to the Wildcats bench. NU was having its worst half of the season Sunday against Minnesota, and Phillips followed the team... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball prepares to face Minnesota
Men’s Basketball Chris Collins has never been afraid of uncharted territory. It wasn’t that long ago that he took the head coaching job at a school that had never made the NCAA Tournament, or that he turned a group of three- and four-star recruits into a No. 8 seed that almost beat Gonzaga in the... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball loses ninth straight at Penn State
Men’s Basketball Last February, Penn State was the last-place team in the Big Ten when it showed up at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Nittany Lions hadn’t won a conference game yet, but then they beat the Wildcats by seven points, and the postgame celebration was so loud in Penn State’s locker room that the team was... → Read More
Women’s Golf: Freshman Irene Kim leads Northwestern to win at Lady Puerto Rico Classic
Women’s Golf Irene Kim had a very typical start to her freshman season. In her first four matches at the college level, Kim never finished higher than 21st place, and she’d finished as low as 57th. Northwestern played in its first match of the spring season this week, and Kim had a surprising showing ––... → Read More
Pete Nance has had a difficult month with Northwestern men’s basketball
Men’s Basketball When his three-point shot fell through the net against Michigan on Wednesday, Pete Nance clapped his hands and smiled. The entire Northwestern bench stood up and celebrated. It wasn’t even a big shot –– the Wildcats cut their deficit down to 18 points in the middle of the second half –– but the... → Read More
Northwestern men’s basketball blown out by Michigan at Welsh-Ryan Arena
In Chris Collins’ mind, it’s only happened twice all season. Despite all the agonizing close losses and all the blown second-half leads, Northwestern hasn’t been run off the floor often. That happened two weeks ago at Michigan State, and it happened again Wednesday in the Wildcats’ (6-17, 1-12) 79-54 loss to Michigan (15-9, 6-7). But... → Read More
NU women’s basketball guard Jordan Hamilton thriving in bench role
Women’s Basketball The day Jordan Hamilton walked on campus in 2017, coach Joe McKeown gave her the ball and told her to get ready to be Northwestern’s starting point guard. During her freshman year, Hamilton established herself as a starter before Lindsey Pulliam, but eventually the two young guards became the best freshman backcourt in... → Read More
Northwestern Men’s Golf wins Big Ten Match Play in Palm Coast, Florida
Men’s Golf Had the match lasted any longer, Northwestern would have been playing in the dark. In Big Ten Match Play last weekend in Palm Coast, Florida, the Wildcats advanced to the championship, and then that match against Penn State went into a tiebreaker round. As sophomore David Nyfjäll lined up to play the 17th... → Read More
Northwestern’s offense struggles in overtime loss to Rutgers
Men’s Basketball Northwestern kept missing opportunities, shots and often, the rim altogether. The Wildcats led by 11 points with 6:30 remaining, and then the offense fell apart. Freshman guard Boo Buie took three floaters down the stretch that didn’t land anywhere near the basket. Freshman center Ryan Young got blocked at the rim. Sophomore forward... → Read More
Men’s Basketball: The 25-year-old lessons Chris Collins carries with him
Just three years ago, Northwestern was in the NCAA Tournament. Now, the Wildcats are the last-place team in the Big Ten and on pace to have their worst season since 2000. Over the next few weeks, The Daily Northwestern will look at the state of Northwestern men’s basketball in a series called “Waiting.” This is... → Read More
Women’s Basketball: Lindsey Pulliam leads Northwestern to another conference win
Women’s Basketball Lindsey Pulliam doesn’t remember exactly when it happened. But at some point in the third quarter, the junior guard went into Northwestern’s huddle and told her teammates to start getting her the ball. The Wildcats had lost their double digit lead in the third quarter, so Pulliam got the attention of her teammates,... → Read More