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Northwestern basketball’s final weeks are full of opportunity

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You’ve felt this before, haven’t you?

The mind-numbing, the heart-wrenching and the empty. The why, the how and the what.

Northwestern is Northwesterning. The team has lost five of its last seven. It blew a three-possession lead at Indiana with under two minutes to go. It dropped both of its meetings against in-state rival Illinois, a program in the midst of yet another down year and a likely coaching change. The team is spent, physically and emotionally. And how could you blame it? Aaron Falzon and Rapolas Ivanauskas both have missed basically the entire year. Scottie Lindsey got mono during a key part of the stretch run and still isn’t quite himself.