Twenty-two days after Northwestern’s Champaign campaign encountered unyielding resistance before a hostile State Farm Center crowd, No. 10 Illinois looked to invade its northern adversary’s arena and...

Despite the soaring heights coach Chris Collins has reached in his tenure in Evanston, the tactician never took his squad into the State Farm Center and left unscathed. Now, with Northwestern hitting the...

Men's Basketball It’s rare to have a head coach call a game early in conference play a “must-win,” but Chris Collins played that card on Jan. 6. And then his team delivered its most...

Men's Basketball ROSEMONT — Northwestern’s leading scorer entered the team’s Big Ten opener against Illinois in an unusual position. Fresh off a trying last-second loss to Georgia Tech in...