11/16/2008 Northwestern v. Central Arkansas Game Preview

Central Arkansas Bears (0-1, 0-1 away)
Northwestern Wildcats (1-0, 1-0 home)
November 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM ET
Non-Conference Regular Season

Welsh-Ryan Arena
Evanston, Illinois

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2008-2009 Team Stats

GPMPGPPGFGMFGAFG%3PM3PA3P%FTMFTAFT%ORBDRBTRBAPGSPGBPGTOVPF
Central Arkansas2938.762.121.252.6.4045.416.4.33114.321.6.66210.121.731.910.75.43.212.617.6
Northwestern3140.263.522.550.6.4458.221.3.38610.314.9.6907.018.225.215.27.32.910.717.9
UCA Opponents2540.071.625.455.9.4556.418.7.34514.421.4.67311.524.536.012.86.25.012.019.7
NWU Opponents3138.959.320.447.0.4336.518.7.34612.117.0.7109.420.429.812.85.63.913.916.0

2008-2009 Central Arkansas Bears Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters M. Pillow B. Taylor M. Rueter C. Brown B. Marks
Rotation D. Clayborn M. Pouncy K. Cannon   L. Brewer
Rotation A. Walsh        
Lim PT A. Silverman     C. Henson  

2008-2009 Northwestern Wildcats Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters M. Thompson C. Moore K. Coble J. Shurna K. Rowley
Rotation   J. Nash J. Ryan   L. Mirkovic
Lim PT   S. Williams M. Capocci I. Peljusic  
Lim PT   N. Fruendt P. Houlihan D. Curletti  
Lim PT   M. Steger M. Day    

Central Arkansas Bears Player Stats

# Player Pos GPMPGPPGFGMFGAFG%3PM3PA3P%FTMFTAFT%ORBDRBTRBAPGSPGBPGTOVPF
  Landrell Brewer C 28 15.1 3.8 1.4 2.9 .476 0.0 0.0 .000 1.0 1.8 .569 1.2 2.8 4.0 0.3 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.3
  Chris Brown F 22 24.1 8.0 3.2 6.4 .507 0.0 0.2 .250 1.5 2.5 .611 1.5 3.0 4.5 1.0 0.5 0.5 1.1 2.9
  King Cannon F 26 13.7 3.3 1.0 2.5 .385 0.7 1.7 .419 0.7 1.0 .720 0.3 1.1 1.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.8 1.2
  Dewan Clayborn G 27 15.3 3.2 1.0 3.3 .315 0.5 1.7 .277 0.7 1.5 .439 0.3 1.1 1.4 1.9 0.7 0.0 1.8 1.6
  Robert Crawford F - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  Chris Henson F 16 6.3 1.6 0.6 2.0 .312 0.1 0.5 .250 0.2 0.4 .667 0.4 0.6 1.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.4
  Brian Marks C 28 23.5 4.7 1.8 4.2 .427 0.0 0.1 .000 1.1 2.2 .500 3.0 5.7 8.6 0.3 0.4 1.1 0.8 2.6
  Marcus Pillow G 28 31.7 11.8 3.8 11.8 .322 2.4 6.9 .340 1.9 2.4 .776 0.4 2.6 2.9 2.6 1.0 0.0 2.1 1.5
  Mike Pouncy G 13 23.5 10.1 3.8 8.4 .450 0.3 1.3 .235 2.2 3.1 .725 1.0 1.7 2.7 1.6 0.6 0.2 1.5 2.2
  Mitch Rueter F 27 28.3 11.9 4.1 9.2 .448 0.7 2.1 .345 2.9 4.0 .731 1.5 2.0 3.5 1.3 0.8 0.3 2.2 2.6
  Andrew Silverman G 22 8.3 2.0 0.6 1.6 .371 0.2 0.6 .308 0.6 1.0 .667 0.4 0.7 1.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.5
  T.K. Smith G - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  Brooks Taylor G 25 26.7 11.7 3.8 9.4 .400 1.2 3.4 .341 3.0 3.8 .781 0.9 1.8 2.7 1.6 0.5 0.1 2.0 3.0
  Aymard-Caha Walsh G 28 11.5 2.5 0.7 1.6 .455 0.0 0.1 .000 1.1 1.9 .593 0.5 1.4 1.8 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.7 1.0

Northwestern Wildcats Player Stats

# Player Pos GPMPGPPGFGMFGAFG%3PM3PA3P%FTMFTAFT%ORBDRBTRBAPGSPGBPGTOVPF
  Mike Capocci F 16 4.8 1.4 0.4 0.8 .538 0.0 0.1 .000 0.6 0.8 .750 0.4 0.4 0.9 0.4 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.9
  Kevin Coble F 31 34.2 15.5 5.8 12.2 .472 1.5 3.8 .395 2.5 3.2 .768 0.7 4.1 4.8 2.5 1.3 0.6 1.4 1.5
  Davide Curletti F 17 6.1 1.1 0.5 0.9 .533 0.1 0.1 1.000 0.0 0.1 .000 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.6 1.1
  Marlon Day F 4 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.2 .000 0.0 0.2 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
  Nick Fruendt G 9 2.1 0.4 0.1 0.9 .125 0.0 0.1 .000 0.2 0.2 1.000 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2
  Patrick Houlihan F 8 1.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.2 0.5 .500 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
  Luke Mirkovic FC 26 18.5 3.9 1.4 3.1 .444 0.2 0.4 .400 1.0 1.5 .667 1.2 2.1 3.2 1.5 0.4 0.5 1.0 2.3
  Craig Moore G 31 35.6 14.3 4.6 10.8 .423 3.5 8.7 .406 1.6 2.0 .794 0.6 2.6 3.2 2.7 1.3 0.3 1.8 2.4
  Jeremy Nash G 31 18.7 3.5 1.3 3.1 .402 0.5 1.3 .341 0.5 0.8 .654 0.7 1.5 2.2 1.1 1.1 0.2 0.8 2.4
  Ivan Peljusic F 24 9.8 2.4 1.0 2.1 .460 0.1 0.4 .333 0.3 0.8 .400 0.5 1.4 1.9 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.9
  Kyle Rowley C 31 13.3 3.6 1.5 3.2 .465 0.0 0.0 .000 0.6 1.1 .543 0.6 1.2 1.8 0.6 0.2 0.3 1.2 1.9
  Jeff Ryan GF 28 12.4 2.1 0.6 1.5 .419 0.0 0.2 .000 0.8 1.2 .629 0.6 1.1 1.7 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.7 1.4
  John Shurna F 31 18.5 7.3 2.7 5.7 .466 0.8 2.4 .347 1.1 1.5 .745 1.1 1.9 3.0 1.0 0.5 0.6 1.2 1.2
  Matt Steger GF 4 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
  Michael Thompson PG 31 32.9 9.9 3.4 7.7 .435 1.5 3.7 .417 1.6 2.3 .704 0.4 1.6 1.9 3.7 1.3 0.1 1.7 3.0
  Sterling Williams G 28 6.8 0.9 0.4 1.0 .393 0.0 0.4 .100 0.1 0.2 .286 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.5