Northwestern women's basketball coach Joe McKeown, in his first year with the Wildcats, has more than 500 career wins. Rarely does he let freshmen play. But NU freshman Brittany Orban has bucked that trend, and has started more than 20 games since November.
Zach Buchanan sat down with Orban to talk about hoops, school and her goals for the rest of the season.
Excerpts:
Did you expect to crack the starting lineup your freshman year?
ORBAN: It was always a hope of mine, coming in as a freshman, to get the chance to start in at least one or two games. I wasn’t expecting that.
When Coach McKeown came to the program this off-season, a lot of older players had to forget the old system and start over. Do you think that gave you a head start as a freshman?
ORBAN: Basically Coach had mentioned we were all starting out as freshmen in his standpoint. We were all brand new to the system. That’s what has taken us a little bit to get into the season. We weren’t used to his system, so we’re finally all getting it in. It was great to come in as a freshmen under a brand new coaching staff – that way I have all four years with them.
Click the link to see photos of Orban in action.
https://depot.northwestern.edu/class/2009WI_JOUR_341-0_SEC21/buchanan/photogallery_brittanyorban.swf
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everything is in working order. Sports are very difficult to photograph, but you had some nice images. As a viewer, I'd rather see her in action than posed portraits, etc.
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