#25 in AP Poll
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Who wins Wednesday? Tell me and by how much so I can get in touch with my bookie.....
Trivia question:
When is the last time Northwestern was ranked and played against another ranked team?
I honestly don't know the answer, but I think NU was ranked in the 1994 game against Purdue when Glenn Robinson made a last-second shot to beat the Cats in Welsh-Ryan.
When is the last time Northwestern was ranked and played against another ranked team?
I honestly don't know the answer, but I think NU was ranked in the 1994 game against Purdue when Glenn Robinson made a last-second shot to beat the Cats in Welsh-Ryan.
1/2/2010. NU was ranked #25 in the 12/28/2009 AP poll and lost by 21 @MSU, who were ranked #11 at the time. (While technically ranked, NU had already lost their first Big 10 game against Illinois so they would not have been ranked in the subsequent poll......)
John Feinstein, who probably knows as much about college BB as any writer, hsa NU 20th, ahead of both Butler and ND.
On the other hand, Dickie V doesn't have NU in his top 25. Shows how much thought he puts into it.
NU never cracked the top 25 that season. I think we were receiving votes at the time of that game.
i believe this week you said #26 in AP poll and #25 in coaches poll...
great to see though! keep playing our game and the rest will take care of itself. On to Purdue!!
side note - the ACC is really beating itself up, I think 5 of the 6 teams in the top 25 now lost at least once this week? FSU twice, ND twice, Duke almost lost twice (scraped by Wake on two 3s in the last 30 seconds). Only Lville got through unscathed. kinda like the B1G in some past years...
Yes. In 1955, NU was ranked 16th on 1/25.
To show how rare this weeks ranking is, NU has been ranked just 4 other seasons, for a total of 12 weeks:
25 in 2010
19, 12, 17 in 1968-69
10, 6, 12, 6, 8, 11, 18 in 1958
16 in 1955
I remember that game well, it was my freshman year. A bunch of us from Elder Hall sat right behind Glenn Robinson's mother and grandmother. They were subjected to "Prop 48" chants the whole game, and when the Big Dog hit that shot, they just turned around and gave us a nod of the head with a deathly stare.
I remember it too. Was probably 10 feet away from Robinson when he hit that shot (I was right under the basket). I think if I'd reached out to block it, he still would've hit it (in my memory, he was triple-teamed on that shot). He might have been the best player I saw in my years of regularly going to games.
He misses that shot, and the whole fun ride we're on right now is probably not as fun, as NU would've made the tourney that year. Coach Byrdsong may not have had his "Walk on the Wild Side" and who knows what else would've changed.
And in those early years only one BIG team went to the dance. I though there was a period in Esch's Sr year we were ranked but it was not for long.
I was there as well, Smelly. Robinson was a man among boys on the court. Best player I ever saw against NU.
We actually had a pretty good shot to win it at the end. It was Patrick Baldwin who hurried up the floor, there was no time out after GR's shot, and had a pull up from the foul line that was short.
NU's non conference schedule was incredibly weak that year (made for the NIT when any Big Ten team over .500 got in). Team had a great win over Michigan's Fab Four (minus Chris Webber) to actually get in the "little dance" No way that was an NCAA contender.
I prefer to remember it as three players draped over the Big Dog at the buzzer and the Cats being good enough to go the NCAAs. Nostalgia is great.
In all honesty, we'll never truly know what 1994 would've been like if Robinson had missed that shot. NU was something like 10-0 at the time, and that shot started the big losing streak that included Byrdsong's walk on the wild side. If they'd have won, maybe they would've kept winning. I loved that team (Baldwin is my all-time favorite Wildcat, and I happily pointed him out to my son yesterday when I saw him sitting next to B-Mac last night). That game against Michigan in overtime is one of my favorite NU hoops memories.
I think that was also the year that the beginning of the NU NIT game was pre-empted by some Tonya Harding hearing. Ah, 1994.
In all honesty, we'll never truly know what 1994 would've been like if Robinson had missed that shot. NU was something like 10-0 at the time, and that shot started the big losing streak that included Byrdsong's walk on the wild side. If they'd have won, maybe they would've kept winning. I loved that team (Baldwin is my all-time favorite Wildcat, and I happily pointed him out to my son yesterday when I saw him sitting next to B-Mac last night). That game against Michigan in overtime is one of my favorite NU hoops memories.
I think that was also the year that the beginning of the NU NIT game was pre-empted by some Tonya Harding hearing. Ah, 1994.
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ESPN is running a trailer tonight that it is the second time in 45 years the Cats have been ranked, and only the 13th time in their history, the fewest of any major conference team. It never ends!