JerShon Cobb

Northwestern basketball will hit Las Vegas and Tobacco Road this season. The Wildcats also plan to play some in-town games with local appeal. NU's schedule has yet to be finalized, but the Wildcats are slated to play UIC at the Pavilion and host...

Where Fred Hill goes, Jaren Sina follows. Sina originally committed to Northwestern, where Hill was an assistant under Bill Carmody. On the same day Seton Hall announced that Hill would join head coach Kevin Willard’s staff, the 6-foot-1 combo...

Bill Carmody has elevated Northwestern basketball from Point C to Point B. Or is it Z to B? He took over after Kevin O'Neill's 1999-2000 misfits went 5-25. The point guard, Collier Drayton, was legally blind in one eye. Two years later, Carmody's crew...

Bill Carmody took Northwestern basketball from the depths of Division I to respectability. But given 13 chances, he could not take the Wildcats to the NCAA tournament. And ultimately that’s what led to a change Saturday, ending years of “...

Alex Marcotullio, Reggie Hearn and Jared Swopshire bid adieu in a ceremony before Northwestern's 66-59 loss to Penn State, but what everyone in the house wanted to know was whether it was also coach Bill Carmody's last game at Welsh-Ryan Arena. Carmody...

A Monday morning injury update revealed nothing but bad news for Northwestern. Jared Swopshire's right knee is still being evaluated, but NU coaches are bracing for the possibility of losing him for more than just Thursday’s game at Ohio State....

The crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena stretched to the top row, but the behind-the-basket student sections were less than half full. The temptation was to criticize the students who stayed on campus Sunday afternoon to watch NFL playoff games or take part in...

Drew Crawford is done for the season, a harsh blow for a Northwestern team thirsting to make its first NCAA tournament. The 6-foot-5 senior swingman will seek a medical hardship waiver after he undergoes shoulder surgery for a torn labrum. School...

If Charles Dickens had witnessed the first half at Welsh-Ryan Arena, he would have had an easy time describing it. The best of times? Northwestern scored 17 straight points in a four-minute span. The worst of times? At one point, the Cardinal had an 18-...

Academic issues were the main reason Northwestern suspended JerShon Cobb  for the 2012-13 season, the Tribune has learned. Subpar grades left Cobb ineligible for the fall quarter. And the talented swingman continues to struggle with left hip tendinitis...

JerShon Cobb injected enormous life into Northwestern's offense last season when he returned from hip soreness. The 6-foot-5 guard from Atlanta scored 24 points in NU's loss to Minnesota in the Big Ten tournament and dropped 19 (on 8-for-10 shooting)...

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