For the second time in three games, the Wildcats overcame a terrible first half effort en route to a rousing overtime over Columbia.
Similarly to their season-opening win over UMass Lowell, Northwestern seemed to take the first half of tonight's game against Columbia off, as the Wildcats went down big early on -- after fighting back to a 26-26 tie -- and were losing at halftime. And, like in that game, Northwestern staged a methodical comeback after the break, eventually tying the game up at 74 on a Bryant McIntosh jumper and going on to win 83-80 in overtime to improve to 3-0 on the season.