When Northwestern’s starting lineup is announced, the last player to be introduced isn’t Bryant McIntosh—the face of the program’s #BMAC4THEDIME campaign—or Vic Law—the team’s leading scorer. It’s Sanjay Lumpkin.
When the Wildcats are in need of an offensive spark off the bench, Chris Collins doesn’t choose uber-aggressive Isiah Brown or the athletic Gavin Skelly, his best passing big man. He might not even choose whichever one of Scottie Lindsey, Vic Law or Sanjay Lumpkin is sitting. Often, he’ll choose Nathan Taphorn.
It should be no surprise that with Northwestern taking on Dayton at the United Center, the team’s two seniors stepped up in the Wildcats’ biggest game of the season.