They have the new field, the new locker room, the new recruits and even new jerseys and helmets. Now all that’s left for Northwestern baseball is a new culture, one in which winning is the rule, not the exception.
That’s going to be the main issue for Spencer Allen in his second year at the helm of the Wildcats. After winning its first two games in 2016, Northwestern won just 13 of 52 games the rest of the way, resulting in the team’s third straight year of sub-20 wins.
Such records were common during the 28-year tenure of previous coach Paul Stevens, whose name adorns the renovated plaza of Rocky and Berenice Miller Park.