Close, but no cigar.  The age-old phrase has become an almost perfect representation for Northwestern’s season. And nowhere was it more evident than Saturday at Welsh-Ryan Arena, where the Wildcats...

The greater college basketball world may hesitate to call Illinois-Northwestern — a series in which one team has won 143 of 185 meetings — a “rivalry” in the traditional sense. But on Saturday...

Men's Basketball No matter the home or away team, winning a Big Ten matchup is a difficult task to complete. An in-state rivalry intensifies the atmosphere even more. These key components didn’t...

Excluding its 20-point loss to Purdue on Sunday, Northwestern’s last six contests in men’s basketball have been decided by 29 points total. However, the team won only one of those meetings.  In...

Northwestern's inability to close out games once again stymied any momentum or progress shown on Wednesday.  The Wildcats' 72-70 defeat to Michigan gives it six Big Ten losses by eight or fewer points....