Roll Damn 'Cats
A grim sub-.500 record doesn’t reflect the fluorescent future that Northwestern baseball has in the hands of Nick Barron and Jay Slater, who shone under the bright lights of U.S. Bank Stadium. The ‘Cats (6-7, 0-0 Big Ten) went on a weekend bender in Minnesota, meeting South Dakota State (5-10, 0-0 Summit League), Omaha (4-10, […]
Northwestern softball has faced a gauntlet schedule to open this season. The toll of that slate caught up with the Wildcats at Husky Softball Stadium, where they were swept by No. 22 Washington this past weekend. The series accounted for three of NU’s 16 games against 11 2025 NCAA tournament teams the Wildcats were set […]
At the Indiana Last Chance Meet, Diego Nosack broke his own school record in the 200-yard butterfly, while four of five Wildcat swimmers posted new personal best times. The Indiana Last Chance Meet is an annual competition that offers Division I swimmers one final opportunity to qualify for the NCAA men’s championships, taking place Wednesday, […]
With a disappointing 5-15 Big Ten record, the Northwestern Wildcats are stuck playing on the Big Ten Tournament’s opening day. The Wildcats will take on Penn State on Tuesday at the United Center in Chicago, and they will seek to continue their momentum from a 94-73 victory over the Nittany Lions on Jan. 29. Northwestern […]
Northwestern’s regular season folded after a heartbreaking loss to Minnesota last Saturday, a failed attempt to avenge January’s home defeat. After that night, the Wildcats slotted to a 15th seed and will clash with 18th-seeded Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament. Led by senior Nick Martinelli, who shepherded this ship as a Big Ten […]
With big weeks from both Ohio State and UCLA, the Big Ten’s NCAA Tournament outlook is a lot cleaner. The conference will have five teams somewhere along the top four seed lines, led by No. 1 seed Michigan, with at least nine teams in the overall field. That number could grow to 11 if any […]
It was a confusing week and a half of Northwestern basketball. The Wildcats knocked off Oregon on a Nick Martinelli game winner after trailing by double digits. A week later, they trailed by double figures against Minnesota and Martinelli had a look for a game winner. It was deja vù right up until Northwestern’s two-time […]
Experience and youth shared the spotlight at the Wrestling Big Ten Championships. Northwestern graduate student Sean Spidle finished in seventh place and punched his ticket to the NCAA Championships, while freshman Billy Dekraker finished in eight place, the youngest Wildcat to reach the podium in over five years. Spidle will make his second-straight appearance at […]
While Nick Martinelli’s missed game-winner was the defining moment in Northwestern’s 67-66 loss to Minnesota, I want to call your attention to an extended sequence from ten minutes earlier. Northwestern scored 12 points in the first 5:48 of the second half, all courtesy of first-years Tre Singleton and Jake West. Throughout the eight possessions during […]
Northwestern rebooted its confidence with its three consecutive wins over Oregon, Indiana and Maryland, but these last two close losses against Purdue and Minnesota have slightly burst the bubble of optimism heading into the Big Ten Tournament. Saturday night’s one-point loss to Minnesota felt especially familiar. Here are three takeaways from Northwestern’s regular season finaly. […]
Northwestern (13-18, 5-15 B1G) erased a 15-point second half deficit against Minnesota (15-16, 8-12 B1G), but Nick Martinelli wasn’t able to replicate last week’s magic, as his go-ahead attempt with three seconds remaining clanked off the back iron. After a poor first half performance that saw the visitors fall down by as many as 16, […]
Northwestern men’s basketball (13-17, 5-14 B1G) travels to Minneapolis to take on Minnesota (14-17, 7-12 B1G in its regular season finale with major Big Ten Tournament implications. The ‘Cats lost 84-79 against the Golden Gophers on Jan. 3 early in the season. Northwestern will be missing forward Arrinten Page, who is out with an illness, […]
It has been an eventful couple weeks for Northwestern men’s basketball. The Wildcats strung together their largest win streak since November against Maryland, Indiana and Oregon before mounting an upset attempt against Purdue that fell short in heartbreaking fashion. The twists and turns of this late-season push have showcased improvement in many areas, but there […]
The opening paragraph of Inside NU’s 2024-2025 post-mortem is as follows: “On paper, Northwestern women’s basketball continued its streak of seasons to forget in 2025. It finished with a 9-18 record, went 2-16 in conference play and was one of just three teams that failed to qualify for the Big Ten Tournament. Since 2022, the […]
A rare somber song played over the loudspeakers as Nick Martinelli looked up at the jumbotron, watching his face flash across the screen before suiting up in Evanston one last time. A sold-out crowd packed Welsh-Ryan Arena for Senior Night, ready to celebrate Martinelli and the rest of the senior class as Northwestern tried to […]
As Nick Martinelli walked out for Senior Night and paused to take it in, Welsh-Ryan Arena rose with him. The Glenview, Illinois native has poured everything into this season, carrying Northwestern night after night. He leads the conference in scoring at 22.7 points per game and is on track to finish as the Big Ten’s […]
From a record-setting performance off the bench in Madison to a perfect conference record in Westwood, the Big Ten closed out its regular season with a week full of history, drama and dominant performances on both sides of the ball. Braeden Carrington torched opponents for a program-record nine threes in a single game while Nick […]
After sweeping both the team and individual titles at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational, Northwestern faced a stacked field at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, finishing ninth at 26-over par. The ‘Cats competed against 11 top-25 teams at Long Cove Club in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where No. 9 Texas claimed the team championship at […]
On an emotional senior night, a crowd seemingly composed mostly of Northwestern students or Purdue alumni sold out Welsh-Ryan Arena for the ‘Cats’ last home game of the season. Northwestern (13-17, 5-14 BIG) gave 15th-ranked Purdue (23-7, 13-6) all they could handle but fell short in the last few possessions. For NU, Nick Martinelli led […]
Northwestern men’s basketball (13-16, 5-13 B1G) is playing its best basketball of the season, riding a three-game Big Ten winning streak into Wednesday. Purdue, meanwhile, looks vulnerable. The No. 15 Boilermakers (22-7, 12-6) have dropped three of their last four, including back-to-back losses to Michigan State and Ohio State. Still, the preseason No. 1 team […]
In today’s college basketball landscape, Joe McKeown is a dying breed — an atlas at a defining crossroads, forced to shoulder the brunt of an era of rapid transformation. In his final days as head coach, McKeown was inextricably linked to a stretch of historically bad Northwestern basketball. There’s no denying how bad the ‘Cats […]
Momentum is a funny, often unpredictable thing and it caught up with the Wildcats this past weekend. Ben Greenspan and his team glided into Atlanta on a five-game win streak with dreams of an upset or two, but there wasn’t much they could do against one of the most talented teams in the nation. No. […]
It’s hard to believe the 2026 women’s lacrosse season is nearly a month old. After a thrilling first four weeks of the year, March is here, and alongside March Madness comes a packed slate of matchups with many implications for the top 10 in the IWLCA coaches poll. Let’s take a look at how things […]
Northwestern led Ohio State 6-1 as the cheers rang from the dugout. A confident “Duh-duduh! Ay! Go ‘Cats!” echoed in a high-pitched tone as Avery Garden took to the box. In this faint moment, I was reminded of a team that had once solidified itself as the best in the Big Ten — a force […]
Nick Martinelli: captain clutch. That’s been his identity the past two seasons here at NU, earned by three career-defining game winning shots that will be synonymous with his impact on Northwestern men’s hoops. But which one of these moments is his magnum opus? Here’s my take. Start, bench, cut: Martinelli’s three most clutch moments as […]