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Northwestern women's basketball state of the program
"We were one of the best teams in the country and never got to prove it," said Joe McKeown. "Now you have an opportunity to prove it."
theathletic.com
Northwestern is the first B1G team examined. (Other team so far: Louisville, UConn and Iowa State).
Some snippets:
Lindsey Pulliam is the avatar for this emergent age of Northwestern women’s hoops. Landmark recruit, leading scorer as a freshman, now twice a first-team All-Big Ten performer with honorable mention All-America status as a junior to top it off. She craves big moments and produces in them. Pulliam enters her final season with a very good shot at becoming only the third player in program history to amass 2,000 career points. We’ll expand on a particularly defining trait in the Spotlight section — when Pulliam decides to get better at something, she usually does — but, generally, the 5-foot-10 senior is where it all begins and ends for this team.
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What to expect from a five-star freshman ranked in the top 50 of the Class of 2020? Well, just about everything. Anna Morris has the size Northwestern needs at 6-foot-3 and the skill set to make an impact with multi-level offense right away. Ideally, Morris makes up in part for Scheid’s absence as the face-up four, only with an even higher high-school pedigree and four years of college basketball ahead of her. “She has a lot of confidence in her shot, which I really like,” Shaw said. “Honestly, it goes in more times than it doesn’t. She’s very calm out there. She doesn’t get frazzled, which a lot of freshmen struggle with.”