Northwestern basketball looks wholly different than it did on March 27, 2013.
That's when Northwestern AD Jim Phillips hired Chris Collins, then the Associate Head Coach at Duke, to usher in a "NU era" of Wildcat basketball. An immediate boost in program visibility ensued, as did a gradual but steady increase in recruiting success and, thus, on-court talent.
The first recruiting coup came in the form of Vic Law, whose signing was significant not only because of his 4-star status, but also because he's from the Chicagoland area, a region Collins' predecessor Bill Carmody had trouble mining.