Game Day Essentials: Game #27 at Northwestern

 Northwestern Info

Head Coach: Chris Collins
Location: Evansville, IL
Conference: B1G
Nickname: Wildcats

Mascot: Willie the Wildcat

Last time out: Lost to Minnesota
Line: Northwestern by 11
Typical Rotation Depth: 9

KenPom rank: 74

Other:  

• Northwestern roasted Nebraska in Lincoln by 24 in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicates. Boo Buie erupted for 27 points.
• Fred Hoiberg was under the weather on Sunday/Monday with a non-covid/non-flu illness which means his voice is suspect. 
• At 437 points, Bryce McGowens is 9 points away from surpassing Dave Hoppen on the all-time freshman scoring record.

Player to watch: Pete Nance

Senior F/C Pete Nance has been on sort of a Roby type question to realize his goodness and has quite good this season.  The mobile 6'10" post can play either forward or center where he's a 3 level scorer and a rim protector

Possible Northwestern Starters

0 Boo Buie G 6-2 180 Jr. Albany, N.Y. / Gould Academy (Maine)

5 Julian Roper II G 6-3 180 Fy. Detroit, MI. / St. Mary's
1 Chase Audige G 6-4 200 R-Jr. Coram, N.Y. / The Hill School (Pa.)

22 Pete Nance F 6-10 225 Sr. Akron, Ohio / Revere
31 Robbie Beran F 6-9 215 Jr. Richmond, Va. / Collegiate School

Probable Rotation

2 Ryan Greer G 6-2 190 Sr. Atlanta, Ga. / Northfield Mount Hermon (Mass.)
3 Ty Berry G 6-3 185 So. Newton, KS. / Sunrise Christian

21 Elyjah Williams F 6-7 220 Gr. Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township

15 Ryan Young C 6-10 240 R-Jr. Stewartsville, N.J. / Bethlehem (Pa.) Catholic

Bench

13 Brooks Barnhizer G 6-6 215 Fy. LAFAYETTE. IN / Jefferson
14 Casey Simmons G 6-6 180 Fy. Milton, MA / Milton Academy
34 Matthew Nicholson C 7-0 255 So. Clarkston, Mich. / Clarkston
53 Roy Dixon III G 5-11 170 Jr. Atlanta, Ga. / Greater Atlanta Chri

UNL Game Notes

Probable starters for Nebraska
1  Alonzo  Verge    G    6-3

2  Trey  McGowens    G    6-4

5  Bryce  McGowens    G    6-7

11  Lat Mayen    F    6-9

13  Derrick Walker    F    6-9

Rotation

0    C.J.  Wilcher    G    6-5

30  Keisei Tominaga    G    6-2

35    Eduardo Andre    F    6-11

10  Kobe Webster    G    6-0

Bench

23   Keon Edwards    G    6-7

3   Quaran McPherson    G    6-3

33    Oleg Kojenets    F    7-0
4    Jackson Cronin    G    6-1

12    Sam Hoiberg    G    6-0
15    Chris McGraw    G    6-0
21    Jace Piatkowski    G    6-3

Injured

14  Trevor Lakes    F    6-8

32  Wilhelm Breidenbach    F    6-10

The Skinny: 

Nebraska travels to Northwestern to face an underperforming Wildcat team that absolutely rolled Nebraska back in early February. At this point you can't really expect Nebraska's defense to show up so maybe the Huskers get lucky and Northwestern is ice cold. The Wildcats do have the type of foul-prone defense where Nebraska can supplement their offense with FTs.

At this point in the season it's more about trying to decide if Nebraska can keep up with point spread instead of whether or not they'll win.

Prediction: Northwestern 82 - Nebraska 75