As the great Tom Petty once said, “the waiting is the hardest part.”
With a chance to pencil-in its place in the NCAA Tournament against an Iowa team it had beaten on the road and taken to overtime at home this season, Northwestern couldn’t keep up with the Hawkeyes’ high-flying offense in the second half and fell, 72-59.
And so the waiting game begins.
This could be the end of the road for the ‘Cats. Or not. Now, it’s out of their hands and in those of the committee members that will determine who gets an at-large bid and who gets cut.