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A lack of reliable bench depth seemed to be an Achilles heel for the Wildcats in what was yet another disappointing season. In Joe McKeown’s last year as head coach, he gave only six or seven players reliable minutes, choosing instead to stick with his top dogs. Yet, NU’s reserves flashed promise at times this […]
As we move forward with more men’s basketball player reviews, it’s now time to analyze the season of Tre Singleton, the 6-foot-8 freshman forward from Jeffersonville, Ind. The Good Northwestern fans had high hopes for Singleton entering the season. Graduating from Jeffersonville High School, Singleton brought a strong four-star profile (per 247 Sports) to headline […]
Northwestern women’s golf could not replicate the success it found at the PING/ASU Invitational in recent years, as the Wildcats finished 10th after placing first and second in the previous two editions of the event. The 16-team field was a strong one, featuring eight top-50 teams and headlined by No. 2 USC. 19th-ranked Northwestern never […]
After a less-than-stellar start to the 2026 season, Northwestern lacrosse delivered the most impressive win any team has recorded this year, knocking off No. 1 North Carolina in overtime in Chapel Hill on Wednesday. Now that there has been a little time to process the result, what does it mean for the rest of the […]
Not long ago, it felt as if Northwestern’s legendary run of lacrosse dominance had finally come to an end. In a tense Big Ten home opener, the Wildcats found themselves tied 15-15 with Ohio State as the final two minutes of regulation approached. Jenika Cuocco, the centerpiece of a defense that had struggled throughout the […]
Northwestern sophomore guard K.J. Windham will enter the transfer portal after spending the past two years with the Wildcats, per League Ready’s Sam Kayser. Windham averaged 3.5 points per game in 14 appearances during 2025-26. The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 5.9 points per game in 2024-25 but saw a drastically diminished role during his sophomore season, […]
Northwestern women’s basketball has its new commander-in-chief. Just 25 days after Joe McKeown coached his final game as Northwestern’s head coach, the university has hired his replacement in former Princeton head coach Carla Berube. Berube was hired by the Tigers in 2019 and led them to five NCAA Tournament appearances, two NCAA second-round berths and […]
Despite little movement at the top of the IWLCA coaches poll, there were plenty of storylines in the women’s lacrosse landscape over the past week. The contenders — led by UNC — appear established, but multiple teams are poised to make a competitive surge behind them. Let’s take a look at this week’s rankings. NOTE: […]
Despite an early lead thanks to solid starting pitching, Northwestern fell apart late to drop yet another game in the Pacific time zone. Following its series loss to Oregon, the ‘Cats (8-12, 2-4 B1G) stayed in the beaver state to play the Portland Pilots (15-7, 3-0 WCC) on Monday night. The Pilots entered the game […]
One word to describe Northwestern Baseball’s first 17 games of 2026: polarizing. How do fans reckon multiple top-25 conference wins with four losses by 10 runs or more? At times — for two games apiece against Oregon this past weekend and UCLA the weekend prior — the Wildcats have hung with the Big Ten’s best. […]
It was the bottom of seven with two outs. Marina Mason glanced to her right and then to her left, sharing a brief moment with the fielders behind her. She wiped her fingertips on a cloth tucked in her back pocket and stepped to the rubber. It may have been in the back of her […]
Olivia Adamson sat on the bench during her final game at Syracuse, watching the Orange finish their 2025 campaign with a second-round NCAA Tournament loss to Yale. After playing just three games and missing the rest of her senior season because of a lower-body injury, she thought her lacrosse career might be over. Following graduation, […]
14 innings. 208 pitches. Two hits allowed. 14 strikeouts. One earned run. That was Marina Mason’s workload over this past weekend. Pure dominance. The first-year, who’s shown flashes of greatness throughout NU’s non-conference slate, has finally made her arrival to Big Ten softball. Mason spearheaded a Northwestern (15-14, 3-3 B1G) series sweep of the Illinois […]
Despite a thrilling extra-inning win in the finale, Northwestern baseball dropped its series against No. 21 Oregon in Eugene last weekend. The Wildcats (8-11-1, 2-4 B1G) followed a similar pattern from their previous series against USC: a lopsided loss in the opener, a more competitive defeat in the second game and a narrow victory in […]
Northwestern women’s swim and dive set a new school record and took a series of promising steps forward at the 2026 NCAA Division I Championships in Atlanta. Six Northwestern swimmers participated in the four-day competition, and by the time the meet wrapped up on Saturday, Northwestern had earned eight team points and finished 33rd among […]
A promising entry into the NCAA Championships quickly turned into an abrupt exit for the Wildcats. Northwestern (3-9, 1-7 B1G) sent a blend of experience and emerging talent to Cleveland, Ohio, with a returning qualifier and a breakout first-year, both punching their tickets out of a loaded Big Ten field. Red-shirt second-year Sean Spidle (133 […]
After consecutive home losses to No. 14 Syracuse and unranked Ohio State, No. 11 Northwestern (6-3, 1-1 B1G) got back in the win column in a big way with a 17-3 trouncing of Oregon (6-4, 0-2 B1G) on Saturday afternoon’s contest in Eugene. Following Northwestern’s shocking loss to Ohio State on March 15 — its […]
For the first time since 1989, Northwestern fencing was mathematically capable of winning a national championship. After 36 years of Northwestern competing in a co-ed NCAA fencing championship with a women-only team, the NCAA reverted to separate gender championships this past season. That meant men’s and women’s scores were no longer combined to determine a […]
Northwestern wrapped up the 2025-26 season with a struggling but encouraging campaign. One remarkable change this year was Chris Collins playing a wider rotation — 35.7% of minutes went to the bench, per KenPom, ranking 78th nationally. Here’s my review of Northwestern’s reserves who contributed this season. Max Green Though he was a legitimate shooter […]
Despite Northwestern’s season coming to an end with the ‘Cats losing 21 of their last 23 games, there is still a lot of college basketball to be played elsewhere around the nation. The NCAA women’s Round of 64 kicks off on March 20, and a champion will be crowned on April 5. Yet, as NU […]
With Northwestern men’s basketball’s departure from the college basketball scene for the rest of this season comes a major void for ‘Cats faithful to fill. Without NU in the dance, what’s the team to hitch the Wildcat bandwagon onto this March? There are plenty of good options this year. A season filled with feel-good stories, […]
Northwestern football held its annual Pro Day on Monday as 17 former players worked out in front of NFL scouts in anticipation for the 2026 NFL Draft. From an NFL draft perspective, the headliner was Caleb Tiernan. On PFF’s 2026 NFL Draft Big Board, last updated March 16, Tiernan ranked No. 64 overall in the […]
For the first time this season, Northwestern women’s lacrosse has fallen out of the top 10. Losses to Syracuse and Ohio State have sent the Wildcats’ season spiraling, and at 5-3, the ‘Cats currently sit at No. 11 in the IWLCA coaches poll rankings. Frankly, it’s exceedingly hard to imagine a top 10 talk excluding […]
We’re about two weeks out from the conclusion of Northwestern women’s basketball’s season, and all eyes are on who will replace former head coach Joe McKeown at the helm. And while the nation’s top 68 teams are still competing in the NCAA Tournament, plenty of movement has happened elsewhere. Let’s dive into it all and […]
Let’s not sugarcoat it, the 2025-26 basketball season wasn’t the best for Northwestern. A 5-15 record in conference that had two separate five-plus game losing runs, multiple blown second-half leads, and a bow out of the Big Ten Tournament in uncompetitive fashion. It’s a far cry from the back-to-back March Madness dances the Wildcats saw […]