With six minutes remaining, amid a raucous “Let’s Go Cats” chant, Scottie Lindsey trotted to scorers’ table. Dererk Pardon followed a couple of seconds later, and the shooting guard turned to his center and smiled. Normally a relatively reserved and soft-spoken guy, Lindsey had four words. He smiled wide, and he smiled genuinely.
“Let’s do this baby.”
Northwestern, at the time, had sliced a lead that had grown to as large as 22 points down to just six after a pair of Bryant McIntosh free throws. The Wildcat faithful were as loud as they had ever been — and they had been loud whether their team was down 17 or down just two possessions, as it was then.