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SALT LAKE CITY — At first, Bryant McIntosh was confused. Maybe Northwestern wasn’t actually trailing by a point. Why else would Vanderbilt guard Matthew Fisher-Davis had fouled him intentionally in the backcourt with 14.6 seconds left? “I thought maybe I made a mistake,” McIntosh said.…
Rutgers hasn’t had a three-game conference winning streak since the 2005-06 season, and that streak doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon. Northwestern reeled off a 31-0 run in the first half of Thursday’s Big Ten Tournament second round game to take a 37-9 lead…
Northwestern has some big scheduling news for the 2017-18 season. According to reports by Jon Rothstein, the Wildcats will play Oklahoma on the road next year in addition to competing in the Hall of Fame Tip Off tournament. Northwestern will also get a return game…
Everyone thought the pass was long. It felt long out of Nathan Taphorn’s hands on the baseline and looked long to Dererk Pardon’s eyes in front of the opposite basket. From the sideline, coach Chris Collins thought the same thing. But Pardon came down with it…
With 1.7 seconds left, Northwestern senior Nathan Taphorn unleashed a full-court pass to Dererk Pardon for a buzzer-beating layup to break a 65-65 tie against Michigan. The win effectively clinched the first-ever NCAA Tournament berth for the Wildcats, and here’s how Twitter reacted to the…
From the opening tip, Northwestern did not look right in Tuesday’s 68-61 loss to Illinois. While pressing on offense and alternating between rotating slowly and overcommitting on defense, the Wildcats looked like a team playing under pressure. Most likely the cause was the absence of leading…
Northwestern sophomore Vic Law threw down a vicious fast break dunk in the early minutes of Tuesday’s game against Illinois. Leron Black and Malcolm Hill may have had a chance to make a defensive play, but they chose to let Law do his thing as he took…
Welcome back to The Catch and Shoot’s bracket projections! The bracket is broken down into 32 spots given as automatic bids (noted in the bracket with italics), and the remaining 36 are at-large selections. Teams are evaluated by how they have performed to this point in…
Northwestern finally looks ready to break its NCAA Tournament drought after cracking the Top 25 for the first time since 2009. But the Wildcats may not be the only team playing in their first-ever NCAA Tournament in March. Along with Northwestern, here are five other schools…
The Northwestern Wildcats came into their matchup Thursday against Nebraska with a 16-4 record, which is their best start through twenty games in school history. Their 16th victory came against Ohio State in Columbus, winning there for the first time in forty years. The Wildcats definitely carried that…
