[Cracked Sidewalks] Northern Illinois Preview

[brewcity77]

Marquette will kick off their 2023-24 campaign with a visit from the Northern Illinois Huskies. Cracked Sidewalks has your preseason check-in on an NIU team trending in the right direction in year three under Rashon Burno.

Northern Illinois Huskies

[mileskishnish72]

Thanks, Brew. Your post was like a robin in the spring.

[The Sultan]

Thanks, Brew. Your post was like a robin in the spring.

Building nests in inconvenient places?

[Shooter McGavin]

Nice Brew.  Always look forward to the opponent previews.  Thanks you for all the work you put into them.

[brewcity77]

Building nests in inconvenient places?

I laughed. Well played 

[Jay Bee]

Key takeaways:

1) Wild that their 3 year NET & KenPom averages are identical. Can't imagine there are many such schools

2) Their forwards have names that will be touch for other teams to match: Zarique Nutter, Philmon Gebrewhit, Harvin Ibarguen

[mileskishnish72]

Key takeaways:

Their forwards have names that will be touch for other teams to match: Zarique Nutter, Philmon Gebrewhit, Harvin Ibarguen

Be thankful you're not the NIU play-by-play announcer.

[wadesworld]

Key takeaways:

1) Wild that their 3 year NET & KenPom averages are identical. Can't imagine there are many such schools

2) Their forwards have names that will be touch for other teams to match: Zarique Nutter, Philmon Gebrewhit, Harvin Ibarguen

SIC.

[wadesworld]

Any Radfords we need to be warry of coming into the FISERV and picking us off early in the season on the schedule?

[brewcity77]

Any Radfords we need to be warry of coming into the FISERV and picking us off early in the season on the schedule?

My hope is that we're good enough to handle all our guarantee games, but I think NIU, Rider, and St. Thomas all have enough talent to be top-4 in their respective conferences and potentially be Q3 games by the end of the year.

Not sure it's a very bold prediction, but I think there is a far higher chance we lose a game to one of those three than that we lose to Notre Dame at home. I would take any of those rosters over the Irish.

[Herman Cain]

Marquette will kick off their 2023-24 campaign with a visit from the Northern Illinois Huskies. Cracked Sidewalks has your preseason check-in on an NIU team trending in the right direction in year three under Rashon Burno.

Northern Illinois Huskies

Thanks for putting these excellent scouting reports out. They are very helpful.

[MarquetteDano]

Thanks Brew. Speaking of ND, any thoughts on what the game time would be? Organizing a relatively large crowd for that game and we want to make other plans in Mill Town.

[PointWarrior]

Do we have scoopers already afraid of the Huskies?

[brewcity77]

When Shaka took over, The Athletic wrote "All culture for the first two years" as one of the tenets that started this regime. Tonight, we move beyond culture. Here's your NIU primer as the Marquette focus shifts from strictly culture to using that established culture to win.