Sunday’s 28-point loss to Maryland served as a microcosm of everything that has gone wrong for this Northwestern Wildcats team as of late.
For the third game in a row, the ‘Cats could not even make it to the 60-point mark, let alone come away with a win, en route to their first three-game losing streak since 2018. Yes, the Big Ten conference is especially difficult to find success in this year, but the Northwestern team that has shown up the second half of January is nearly unrecognizable.
It was only three weeks ago that Veronica Burton led the ‘Cats to an eight-point win over a ranked Iowa team on the road, so what happened?