In its comeback wins against Indiana and Ohio State, Northwestern men’s basketball is showing a certain character it lacked last season. Even when the Wildcats have gotten down late in second halves, they haven’t folded. Head coach Chris Collins’ postgame refrain is no longer “we’re young” but rather “we were young last year, so we could grow up this year.”
After a year in which NU went 8-23 and just 3-17 in the Big Ten, NU has already matched its conference win total from last year in just one week, and they’re showing those frustrating growing pains weren’t for naught.