As the minutes section of the many electronic game clocks displays simultaneously ticked from ‘6’ to ‘5’, a raucous, half-disbelieving buzz swelled from the large purple section of the seats in Vivint Smart Home Arena resounded throughout every corner of the building. A Northwestern fan base that had spent the vast majority of the game trying to shrug off its gloom and provide its Wildcats with support had now been lifted off its feet by the most valiant of second-half fight backs.
On the floor, the man who was at the head of that charge — Northwestern’s Vic Law Jr.