Northwestern men’s basketball’s regular season officially starts in a week, but tonight is the first glimpse we’ll get into what the 2016-2017 squad has to offer as it takes on University of Illinois Springfield in an exhibition showing at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Prairie Stars are a Division II team that recently made the transition from the NAIA, and they shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for the Wildcats.
Still, this gives us a good preliminary look at where Chris Collins’s team is at, what progress from last year has been made and overall what we can expect to start the regular season.