EVANSTON — After a disappointing start, Northwestern basketball is starting from scratch.
The first seven games of 2016-17 haven’t seen a veteran Big Ten team hold serve. Instead, Northwestern has had two vastly different backbreaking losses, "dead silent" plane rides back to Chicago, emotional heart-to-hearts and unfamiliar two-a-days. Something just wasn't working. The team had to reset. Forget the noise, forget the preseason ranking — this team has put itself in danger of blowing it all by December 31st. Chris Collins had to do something.
The posters of individual players that gazed over the team's practice court at Blomquist Recreation Center are gone.