Associated Press

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Ben Nau scored 22 points off of the bench to help lead St. Thomas over Western Michigan 77-71 on Friday night.

Nau shot 6 for 8 from beyond the arc and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Tommies (8-4). Kendall Blue scored 13 points and added six rebounds and three steals. Miles Barnstable shot 3 of 8 from the field, including 1 for 6 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 3 from the line to finish with 10 points.

The Broncos (3-6) were led in scoring by Javaughn Hannah, who finished with 17 points. Chansey Willis Jr. added 13 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals for Western Michigan. Markhi Strickland also had 13 points and six rebounds.

St. Thomas went into halftime leading Western Michigan 36-34. Nau scored nine points in the half. St. Thomas pulled off the victory after a 16-0 second-half run erased a seven-point deficit and gave them the lead at 52-43 with 13:21 left in the half. Nau scored 13 second-half points.

Both teams play Sunday. St. Thomas hosts Crown (MN) and Western Michigan goes on the road to play North Dakota State.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

M&BR’s Dennis Fithian is back with another episode of Good Afternoon, Michigan Football!

Former Wolverine Jerry Diorio joins the show to discuss UM’s QB room in ’25. Also, Chip Lindsey and the bowl game are topics.

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Bill Belichick 25:23-28:56

Will Underwood start from day 1 28:57-38:15

Chip Lindsey 38:16-49:55

Bowl game 49:56-1:09:41

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When we look at the storm track over the next week or so there are a lot of storm systems lined up across the U.S. and Pacific Ocean. Most of these storm systems are going to roll through the Great Lakes region and Michigan. Will they bring rain or snow? Let’s take a look.

Firstly you should know that when there are a lot of storms lined up closely together, they all can’t be big storm systems. The storm track this coming week will have batches of precipitation every two days. For storm systems to be big and strong there has to be a five to seven day spacing between the storms.

Here’s just a nice easy look at what I like to call a “parade of storm systems” stretched across the Pacific Ocean. It may seem like the farthest storm is a long ways off in time. The last storm on the screen will actually be here by next weekend.

Here’s the upper-air flow at 15,000 feet. This is the level we use to easily see the storm track. Every “U” shaped bend in the flow is a weather-maker. Look how many and how often the bends in the upper-air flow are coming through over the next 10 days.

When we look at the upper-air forecast out through next week it’s a somewhat warmer flow. This means it’s not an all-out winter pattern.

What does this mean here at the ground?

A precipitation event is likely Saturday night/Sunday, again Tuesday, Wednesday and the following weekend. Saturday night’s precipitation looks to be mostly rain for most of us, but with a mixture of snow and light freezing rain at the start. Tuesday looks like rain, not snow. There may be snow for some Wednesday. Next weekend’s weather system looks more like a winter system.

The point I want to make is the dry, no storm pattern that got us into drought this fall has probably ended. The active storm track is coming just in time for winter. This means you will have to follow the forecast closely if you are concerned about winter travels.