Yesterday may not have been Friday the 13th, but Northwestern-Penn State had all of the elements to make it seem like it was.
It wasn’t a horror movie in the way Northwestern’s last Big Ten Tournament game — a gory 112-76 loss to Iowa in Indianapolis exactly 365 days from Friday — was. Instead, what happened at the United Center looked like a snippet of a film that looked so unoriginal that it was almost funny, like something you’d see in a Geico commercial to make a point. All there was to think about down the stretch was, “Wow, this sure looks like Senior Night at Welsh-Ryan Arena.