Minnesota 65, Northwestern 74

January 18, 2009

Conference Regular Season

Welsh-Ryan Arena (Evanston, Illinois)

Attendance: 4,568

Officials: Jamie Luckie, Tom O'Neill, Rick Hartzell

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (5) Northwestern (4)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Northwestern (0)

  1 2 Final
MINN (16-2) 34 31 65
NWU (9-6) 31 43 74

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MINN 70 93.5 106.4
NWU 70 106.4 93.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MINN .566 0.273 0.231 0.094
NWU .576 0.201 0.200 0.457

Minnesota Golden Gophers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL TO BLK PTS
- Colton Iverson Starter C 10:00 2-2 0-0 0-2 2.0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 4
- Lawrence Westbrook Starter SG 27:00 6-14 3-8 3-4 14.5 2 6 8 4 4 2 2 0 18
- Al Nolen Starter PG 29:00 4-7 2-3 0-0 1.2 0 2 2 2 2 0 6 0 10
- Damian Johnson Starter SF 30:00 6-9 2-3 0-0 13.2 2 2 4 1 3 1 1 3 14
- Ralph Sampson III Starter PF 23:00 1-3 0-1 0-0 1.2 1 4 5 0 3 0 2 1 2
- Blake Hoffarber Bench SG 21:00 1-6 1-5 0-0 2.2 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 3
- Travis Busch Bench SF 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
- Devoe Joseph Bench PG 14:00 3-4 2-3 0-1 5.4 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 8
- Paul Carter Bench PF 22:00 2-4 0-1 2-4 5.2 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 0 6
- Jonathan Williams Bench C 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
- Jamal Abu-Shamala Bench SG 06:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 2.2 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
- Devron Bostick Bench SG 10:00 0-2 0-2 0-0 -4.8 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 0 0
  Team                   5            
        200 25-53 10-27 5-11 42.1 6 20 31 17 22 9 19 4 65
          47.2% 37.0% 45.5%                    

Northwestern Wildcats

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL TO BLK PTS
- Craig Moore Starter SG 38:00 6-9 6-9 4-4 15.0 0 5 5 1 3 2 4 0 22
- Kyle Rowley Starter C 10:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 2
- John Shurna Starter PF 12:00 0-3 0-2 0-0 -0.5 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
- Kevin Coble Starter SF 33:00 5-13 1-5 9-9 9.6 0 3 3 4 1 1 4 0 20
- Michael Thompson Starter PG 36:00 3-7 1-3 1-4 3.8 1 0 1 3 3 2 2 0 8
- Jeff Ryan Bench SF 06:00 0-1 0-0 1-2 1.2 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 1
- Luke Mirkovic Bench C 22:00 1-4 0-0 2-2 5.5 0 5 5 2 1 0 1 1 4
- Patrick Houlihan Bench SF 01:00 0-0 0-0 1-2 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
- Sterling Williams Bench SG 05:00 1-1 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
- Jeremy Nash Bench SG 29:00 3-4 0-1 3-4 11.8 3 3 6 3 4 3 2 0 9
- Ivan Peljusic Bench PF 08:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 3.2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4
  Team                   4            
        200 22-46 9-21 21-27 53.4 5 20 29 17 16 8 14 1 74
          47.8% 42.9% 77.8%                    

Minnesota Golden Gophers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Al Nolen
8.1p, 3.7r, 5.3a		 Lawrence Westbrook
14.1p, 2.4r, 1.7a		 Damian Johnson
9.6p, 4.1r, 2.3a		 Ralph Sampson III
6.3p, 3.8r, 0.7a		 Colton Iverson
6.1p, 3.8r, 0.7a
Rotation Devoe Joseph
3.9p, 1.8r, 1.8a		 Blake Hoffarber
7.8p, 3.3r, 1.4a		  
 		 Paul Carter
5.4p, 3.6r, 0.9a		  
 
Rotation  
 		 Devron Bostick
4.8p, 1.6r, 0.9a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Jamal Abu-Shamala
4.7p, 1.9r, 0.8a		 Travis Busch
5p, 1.9r, 0.3a		  
 		 Jonathan Williams
1.1p, 1.4r, 0.4a

Northwestern Wildcats Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Michael Thompson
9.6p, 2.7r, 3.7a		 Craig Moore
14.1p, 3.4r, 2.8a		 Kevin Coble
14.6p, 5.2r, 2.4a		 John Shurna
8.1p, 3.5r, 1.3a		 Kyle Rowley
4.3p, 1.9r, 0.7a
Rotation  
 		 Jeremy Nash
2p, 1.9r, 0.7a		  
 		  
 		 Luke Mirkovic
3.2p, 2.4r, 1.2a
Lim PT  
 		 Sterling Williams
0.9p, 0.6r, 0.3a		 Jeff Ryan
3.1p, 2.3r, 1.4a		 Ivan Peljusic
2.9p, 2.1r, 1a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Patrick Houlihan
0.3p, 0.3r, 0a		  
 		  
 

Today's Games

(4) UConn 76
Seton Hall 61
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(15) Xavier 73
La Salle 53
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Northwestern 74
(18) Minnesota 65
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(19) Purdue 75
Iowa 53
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(23) Villanova 76
St. John's 57
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