With the men’s basketball season a little over a week out, we continue our preseason coverage of Chris Collins’ team by breaking down the schedule released last week. The men’s basketball schedule features four nonconference games before NU jumps into a 20-game conference slate beginning with Michigan State on December 20.
Here are four takeaways from the 2020-2021 Northwestern men’s basketball schedule:
Nonconference schedule shows no clear danger
In this abbreviated season, Northwestern has four nonconference games and three that should be blowout wins.