Here are four takeaways from Northwestern’s fourth conference win of the season, a 68-50 victory over Ohio State:
The streak ends, at last
Even though Northwestern led the entire game, Chris Collins noted the uncertainty looming when Ohio State made a late run to cut the lead to 11 with 4:56 to go. Shades of Iowa City, anyone?
Collins called a timeout. “We just got together, and we just said ‘Not tonight.’”
NU closed the game on an 11-4 run to snap its 10-game losing streak.
Vic Law and Dererk Pardon were coy about the significance of the victory (“It feels better than it has.