At around 5:45 p.m. Friday, I boarded a school bus with a few friends to watch Northwestern basketball make its public debut this season in its intrasquad scrimmage. There were two buses, and I was on the second. I'd guess there were about 15 total people on it.
Now, it wasn't a real game, but still. You got the feeling that, as expected, it's just going to be tough for students to get out to Allstate consistently. Bypassing the highway, it took the bus just under an hour to get down to Rosemont. After the scrimmage, it took us about 40 minutes to get back to our destination outside Northwestern's practice facility on campus.