For much of last season, it felt like Northwestern women’s basketball was missing something. With Alex Cohen graduating at the end of the 2014-15 season, Northwestern lost the only true center on the team, leaving the Wildcats’ without much help on interior defense or rim protection. But the cruel irony of the situation was that the Wildcats were practicing with a true center every day, only for that luxury to disappear in games.
It’s no surprise then that 6-foot-4 Alabama transfer Oceana Hamilton has started every game for the Wildcats thus far, becoming a key cog in Joe McKeown’s attempts to regain the form that led to Northwestern’s historic 2014-15 campaign that ended with a trip to the NCAA Championships.