Aljour Miles II out of Kaufman HS picks up an NU offer tonight. Holds multiple offers including USC, TCU, Texas Tech, Michigan State, Stanford and Kansas.

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Here are @mshelton33's takeaways from Ann Arbor.

After watching Daniels chew up Detroit and a lot of teams this year, Kingsbury would be great with the Bear's QB.

Mike Wright, one of 50 in attendance, representing NU.

“I would start by saying, we’re here to make history,” Northwestern quarterback Mike Wright said. “It’s really just about our voices being heard, whether you’re here to talk about the NIL, the transfer portal, it’s been great just hearing the different perspectives.”

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This team has five dynamite starters with Martinelli and Barnhizer leading the way. What they don't have is a consistent 3 point shooter, which so many other good teams seem to have, and beat us with that. Is there someone on the roster who can fill that role? Berry and Barnhizer don't seem to be the ones.

It took Georgetown being down two starters, but they finally won a regular season Big East game for the first time in 730 days.

Northwestern (10-6, 1-4 Big Ten) hosts Maryland (13-4, 3-3 Big Ten) tonight at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The game is set for an 8 pm tip off and will air on BTN.

Another out of nowhere commit…

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Barnhizer and Martinelli are headed toward an extremely rare accomplishment: two players on the same team averaging 20 points in a season. Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers did it for Loyola Marymount a couple of decades ago. I don't know of any other pair that has. Certainly it's never happened at NU, and I'll bet not in the BIG10 either. Can anyone think of one?

Here are @mshelton33's takeaways from a drama-filled night at Welsh-Ryan.

Includes more details on the financing of the stadium. Annual loan financing cost of $5 million. This place is going to be awesome. Just wish they could have found someone with a Chicago accent to narrate this video......

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Did a nice job today. I think the back-up center job should be his to lose. He has 6 blocks this year in 5 or 6 games. Hunger has 1 block and 1 steal this year. That’s hard to do. You almost have to be trying to avoid the ball.

What started as a positive way to compensate student-athletes for their name, image and likeness has gone terribly awry. Things are out of control. This was not the intent. The NCAA must enact some safeguards soon. It’s worse than the NFL.

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Not a great look for Fick.

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Jack Lausch started 10 games of the 2024 season at quarterback and Northwestern announced he'll be playing this spring season for the baseball team in the outfield, too. @lou v breaks down what Lausch's reemergence as a two-sport athlete means for him, Northwestern football and the future.

Kafka will be the lead in coaching the National squad in the 2025 Senior Bowl.

“The 2025 Reese's Senior Bowl has its coaching staffs lined up.
Cleveland Browns special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone and New York Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka were announced Wednesday as the head coaches for the American and National squads, respectively.
"We're excited to be getting two outstanding coaches with such great reputations leading our teams this year," Reese's Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy said in a statement. "I was part of the Patriots scouting staff that drafted Bubba Ventrone back in 2005 so I know how smart and competitive he is. Mike Kafka has already had numerous head coaching interviews over the past couple hiring cycles and many people I've talked to around the league believe it's only a matter time before he gets one of those jobs. Our players will leave Mobile as better players than when they arrived after spending the week with these two men and their respective staffs."

Ok, maybe this only matters to me, but I liked this:

Martinelli made a buzzer-beating shot at the end of the first half to give NU a 38-37 edge at halftime. Then he hit a buzzer-beating shot at the end of the OT to give the Cats a 38-37 edge after halftime.

Here are @mshelton33's takeaways from a drama-filled night at Welsh-Ryan.

NU just put this out. Whoa. Most football games will be on the lakefront for the next two seasons. Details still scant:

Really poor today guys. Sitting throughout the game, West side on phones, and sections not filled up. Would take a photo but it’s too depressing.

If you can’t get up for this kind of game…

Wow that was intense. What a W. Trying to find the CC postgame. Sadly I missed it on BTN (assuming they showed it earlier). If anyone sees it posted please pass along the link.

Go Cats

I have 3 extra Wilson for tonight. Free but I want to make sure they stay in NU hands. Let me know if anyone can use them!

While I think OSU will win this by 10 or so, I think this is one of the most intriguing B1G games in years. I would love to see Indiana win, and would particularly enjoy seeing OSU, Michigan and PSU all shut out of the title game after all the whining their fan bases did about the West Division having a team in that game before the great chaos was instituted this year.