Despite being ranked for nearly the entire season, the NU women are on trouble.
For the second consecutive Sunday, Northwestern pulled its starters midway through the fourth quarter, this time on the road at Michigan State. But unfortunately for the Wildcats, rather than closing out a decisive victory, they were closing out an ignominious defeat. Amazingly, within the span of a week, the fortunes of Northwestern women’s basketball have gone south. Northwestern dropped out of the AP Poll but received enough votes to unofficially land in 26th. More troublingly, Northwestern has also fallen to 82nd in the NCAA’s RPI rankings.