The last time Northwestern’s men’s basketball team tried to follow up its greatest season of all time they ended up forced to play in a gigantic, lifeless airport arena and gracefully faded away. They weren’t able to conjure up the small miracles they needed year before to get them to the school’s first NCAA Tournament and they were unable to call upon the crowd that had materialized out of nowhere to turn Welsh-Ryan into an actual home court for the first time in recent memory while trying to do so in a windswept 20,000 seat stadium they had to share with the monster truck Grave Digger.
Boo Buie Makes It Happen
