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'Cats Seek Season Sweep of Minnesota Thursday
2/3/2016 10:39:00 AM | Men's Basketball
| NORTHWESTERN BASKETBALL: GAME DAY INFORMATION | |||||
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME | LOCATION | BROADCAST | LIVE STATS |
| Thu., Feb. 4 | Minnesota | 8 p.m. | Welsh-Ryan Arena | BTN and BTN2Go | SIDEARM |
| ESPN 1000, Sirius 81, XM 81: Dave Eanet and Joey Meyer BTN: Dave Revsine and Seth Davis Social: Twitter (@NUMensBball and @NU_SportsLIVE) | Instagram (@numensbball) | Facebook Game Notes: Northwestern | Minnesota | |||||
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EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern looks to continue its recent success against Minnesota when the teams square off at 8 p.m. Thursday at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
The Wildcats have won four of their last five meetings with the Golden Gophers, including posting a 77-52 victory in the first matchup between the teams this season on Jan. 9 in Minneapolis. The 25-point margin of victory was NU's largest in a Big Ten road game since a 77-20 win at Chicago Jan. 14, 1944 and its largest margin in a Big Ten game overall since a 78-47 home win over Ohio State on Jan. 25, 1997. Freshman forward Aaron Falzon hit six 3-pointers in the contest and led NU with 20 points.
PURCHASE TICKETS
The Wildcats and the Golden Gophers have split their last 32 meetings going back to the 2000-01 season.
Northwestern (15-8, 3-7 B1G) is coming off an 85-71 loss at then-No. 3/4 Iowa on Sunday. Senior guard Tre Demps led the Wildcats with a career-high 30 points, topping his previous best of 23. Demps knocked down a career-high six of the Wildcats' 11 3-pointers in the contest. Scottie Lindsey added 15 points off the bench for Northwestern.
Northwestern sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh enters Thursday's game with 156 assists this season, one shy of the NU single-season record of 157 established by Tim Doyle during the 2006-07 campaign. McIntosh ranks 10th nationally and first in the Big Ten with an average of 6.8 assists per game.
Scouting Minnesota
The Golden Gophers (6-16, 0-10 B1G) are still seeking their first Big Ten win of the season after most recently dropping a hard-fought 74-68 decision at Indiana on Saturday. Nate Mason and Kevin Dorsey led Minnesota with 21 points apiece. Mason paces the team with an average of 13.7 points per game. Freshman Jordan Murphy contributes 10.6 points and a team-leading 7.9 rebounds per contest. Richard Pitino is in his third season as the head coach at Minnesota.
