Well, it happened.
The thing every Northwestern basketball fan has spent their entire Northwestern basketball fandom waiting for happened, and we didn’t really even have to sweat. If we’d been waiting for a championship, we’d have had to wait it out until the last second, the final out, the game-sealing play. But we were just waiting to be one of the 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament, and we realized we’d be in a while ago.
For years, I’d dreamed of this moment. But then it rushed by with me getting rapidly comfortable with the onset of history, and then weeks of complete certainty before today, the Sunday we were finally selected.