A win is a win, I guess, but for some reason, this didn’t really feel like one. In a game where Northwestern was projected to win handily (if you go by the exact line, it would be 22.5 points), the Western Michigan Broncos put the team to the test for the entire time. A contest that should have been fairly boring ended up being a nail-biting two halves of basketball; this might be good for the average fan, but this doesn’t make the Wildcats’ prospects look all that promising.
The ‘Cats couldn’t grab the boards.
Northwestern had less than half the amount of rebounds that the Broncos had over 40 minutes.