A third head coaching vacancy may be coming to a Big Ten town near you (especially if you live near Evanston, Illinois). From the Trib: Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips declined to speak publicly Monday, and a team spokesman said coach Bill Carmody was “unavailable” for interviews. Phillips is evaluating Carmody this week, trying to […]

Let’s take a moment to look at Northwestern’s NCAA tournament resume going into the Big Ten tournament: Record: 18-12 (8-10 Big Ten) RPI: 50 Good wins: Michigan State, Seton Hall (?) Bad losses: Minnesota (?) by 23 Record against RPI top 50: 2-10 Record against top 100: 5-12 Record against top 150: 8-12 Record against […]

Will this be the day that the Northwestern leaps into the NCAA Tournament? The Cats put themselves in that position tonight against the 10th ranked Ohio State Buckeyes in what could be the signature win that puts them in the Field of 64, err 68. If Northwestern can get by Ohio State, then a victory […]

Last Four In. Three small words that I’ve been dying to hear associated with the Northwestern Wildcats this late in a basketball season. Looking at Joe Lunardi’s Quick Bracketology Update this morning I was excited to see this development after yesterday’s win over Minnesota. For those who haven’t logged in for their Daily Joe, here […]

We have few rules at the Daily Big Ten, but one of them is: We shall do a post every time someone breaks Northwestern’s all-time scoring record. John Shurna broke Billy McKinney’s 35-year-old school record and now has 1,902 points. This is how McKinney reacted: Around this time, McKinney’s phone buzzed nonstop with text messages. […]

Northwestern wrapped up its 2012 recruiting when former five-star wide receiver Kyle Prater agreed to transfer to Evanston from USC. Everything after that was gravy. Speaking of gravy, here is what is expected to happen for Pat Fitzgerald on National Signing Day (player rankings all via ESPN, with class rankings from Scout.com and comments from […]

Former USC wide receiver Kyle Prater has decided to transfer to Northwestern. He will be eligible to play in 2013. The top-rated recruit out of Illinois (and the top-rated wide receiver nationally) in 2010 announced Saturday that he would choose the Wildcats over other schools, including Wisconsin. Though he struggled through two years of injuries at […]

The Northwestern Wildcats emphatically got off the schneid with an 81-74 victory over the Michigan State Spartans. The Wildcats sported the rare black home jerseys and the student section followed suit with a black-out of Welsh-Ryan arena on Saturday afternoon in Evanston. Unlike the previous two heart-breaking losses against Illinois by a point and on […]

Some wide receiver help is coming to a Big Ten school near you, assuming you live somewhere along Interstate 90: A day after Kyle Prater announced on Twitter that he’s leaving USC, his mother said the former five-star wide receiver from Proviso West will transfer to either Northwestern or Wisconsin. “He needs to be around […]

Northwestern’s floor is a hot mess. As if the Wildcat/N logo weren’t enough, they decided to take purple marker to the area inside three-point line and around the out-of-bounds line. Unfortunately, the purple doesn’t match the purple in the logo. No wonder Illinois is struggling tonight in Evanston.

In an email this week, Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips broke the news to football season ticket holders that tickets will be going up by $3 per game next year. “It is important to note that, even with these adjustments, Northwestern Football continues to be the Big Ten Conference’s most affordable season ticket,” Phillips said […]

Where: Houston, Texas. When: 11 a.m., December 31, ESPN. Why to watch: Northwestern makes a return bowl trip to Texas looking to win its first bowl game since the 1949 Rose Bowl game. Under the helm of Pat Fitzgerald the team is 0-fer in bowl games but they have each been close (two have gone […]

Season so far: 10-2 Good wins: LSU and Seton Hall (with a victory over a historically decent Tulsa squad sandwiched in between) in the Charleston Classic. Also a defeat of Georgia Tech on the road in Big Ten/ACC Challenge was niiice too. NU hung tough on the road at Creighton before falling 87-79. Bad losses: Blown […]

It seems like everyone is getting in on the new jersey trend, both around the nation (think Oregon’s new jersey ensemble per game funded by Nike and Phil Knight) and in the B1G (earlier this week Minnesota teased us with tiny screen shots of new uniforms/helmets). As first posted by CNBC’s Darren Rovell via Twitter, now Under Armour has signed-up […]

Here’s a dandy from the ’96 Rose Bowl. Click on Bad B1G Shirts above the post to see the full series.

Not to be outdone, here’s another questionable Big Ten t-shirt out of Evanston.  It commemorates the game earlier this year when Northwestern defeated Nebraska (a stunning 28-25 victory in the Huskers first year of B10 play). I don’t much like T-shirts that celebrate a singular game, unless perhaps it’s a championship – whether it’s a Big Ten Championship or […]