Northwestern’s 82-76 defeat at the hands of No. 8 Wisconsin left a lot of questions in its wake. The one that is perhaps most pertinent, however, will be impossible to empirically answer:
Are we sure this team isn’t cursed?
The energy was certainly sufficient in Welsh-Ryan Arena Tuesday night, as the sections allotted to students — who were able to attend a Big Ten game for the first time since the onset of the pandemic — were more crammed than University Library during reading week. So too was the team’s performance, as, in hitting 46.5 percent of their shots, the ‘Cats beat their season-long shooting percentage average of 44.