Northwestern is 3-0 and actually better than its record indicates

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports EVANSTON, Illinois — Northwestern is 3-0 in the Big Ten for the first time in 20 years, the last time it claimed a conference championship. The Wildcats’ three wins have come in as many different ways: a blowout, a seventeen-point comeback, and a good old West Division rock fight.

The last two victories haven’t come via particularly pretty methods, and they haven’t necessarily jumped off the page as impressive. But don’t let two Ws by a combined nine points fool you into thinking they’ve gotten lucky and are headed for a regression.

In its 40-point blowout of Maryland, Northwestern could do no wrong. At Iowa, NU quickly learned it was capable of making mistakes…