This past Thursday, college and professional basketball fans alike were once more able to indulge in the annual television extravaganza that is the NBA Draft. While you were glued to ESPN for hours paying attention to elements of the occasion like Jay Bilas making fun of himself for talking about people’s wingspans or Tom Penn jabbing a screen with his stubby fingers while yelling at you about cap space, you probably were not aware of the continuation of a disturbing trend that you were witnessing.
Yes, I am talking about Northwestern basketball’s second-most depressing current drought—that of 17 years without an NBA Draft pick after both Alex Olah and Tre Demps unsurprisingly went undrafted.