Northwestern Wildcats NCAA Basketball News

West Virginia's Brooke Hampton reacts after making the two winning free throws in a 65-63 upset of No.

Purdue guard Kelsey Barlow, left, fouls Northwestern forward Drew Crawford in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in West Lafayette, Ind., Sunday, Feb.

The Northwestern Wildcats can stay firmly on the NCAA Tournament bubble with a victory over the Purdue Boilermakers .

Jeremy Campbell scored a team-high 14 points as Southeastern Louisiana rallied from a 10-point deficit and defeated Northwestern State 66-61 Saturday night.

Alex Marcotullio scored a season-high 13 points to go along with six assists in Thursday's win over Iowa.

Leonard uttered those words several days after his team lost to the Wildcats in Champaign, and he surely was frustrated.

Purdue is fighting for its NCAA tourney life. Losses in four of its last five games leave the Boilers on the edge, if not the brink, although there are seven regular-season games to change that.

POINT DAVE Sobolewski got the first 'Cat basket in their Thursday night meeting with Iowa at Welsh-Ryan. It was a three from the right wing and came with just over two minutes gone.

The game in brief: Iowa got absolutely murdered, giving up 83 points in a relatively slow 60-possession game, allowing 13 three-pointers and an almost unheard of 70% effective field goal percentage while turning the ball over one out of every three possessions.

I felt a lot of energy out there and the guys played together The Wildcats were led by their starting five, all of whom scored double-digit points.

Season tickets are now on sale for the upcoming 2011-12 Northwestern men's basketball season.

The Northwestern Wildcats welcomed in the Iowa Hawkeyes in a Big 10 match up with Northwestern looking to pick up their third win in a row.

Ann Arbor - Late in the second half of last weekend's loss to Michigan State , sophomore Tim Hardaway Jr.

Postseason play isn't all that senior guard Matt Gatens has missed out on since joining the Iowa basketball team in 2008.

It's been way too long since I've written a column. It's been like Winter Quarter: gray, cold and lonely.

John Shurna, senior and the leading scorer in the Big Ten. If Northwestern is to make a run, he will lead it.

Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger was named the Big Ten's co-player of the week, the conference announced Monday.

With eight games left in regular season play, Northwestern needs some life in order to make the NCAA Tournament.

With a solid performance that included going up against the #4 team in the nation, Thomas Robinson, a 6-9 junior from Kansas, has won the StatSheet NCAA Player of the Week.

John Shurna tallied 17 points in the last 12 minutes of Sunday's game to help the Wildcats beat Illinois.