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Two of the better men’s basketball coaches in the Big Ten will square off Wednesday when Northwestern takes on Nebraska at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
Imagine trying to write that sentence with a straight face a couple of years ago.
Some probably would still take issue with it now, though they’d be wrong.
You have the Wildcats’ Chris Collins, who, for all his struggles to get a winner off the ground in Evanston, became Big Ten coach of the year last season, his 10th at the school.