Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg played his cards perfectly.
On the heels of a historic 2022-23 campaign that saw Northwestern men’s basketball take down the number one team in the country and advance to the Round of 32 of the NCAA tournament for the first time in the school’s history, Gragg announced on Monday that head coach Chris Collins signed a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2027-28 season.
Overall, Gragg and Northwestern designed the deal magnificently. A three year extension for Collins amply rewards him for his tremendous work with the 2022-23 group while not being so long as to signal a feeling of complacency or contentedness with regard to the state of the program.