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For the first time in school history, both the football and men’s basketball teams were ranked. The helmeted Wildcats got there last Tuesday when the CFP selection committee gave them the final slot of its top 25. They rose to No. 23 in the rankings released Tuesday night after their 23-13 victory over Purdue on Saturday night.
“I was excited,” athletic director Jim Phillips said of the combo. “That’s a new high-water mark for us.”
As Phillips noted, only four other FBS schools could claim the double play: Notre Dame, Michigan State, Miami and USC.
Given that it’s brainy Northwestern, Phillips glowed because of other recent achievements: A 99 percent GSR (graduation success rate) for the football team and 97 percent for all student-athletes; tailback/econ major Justin Jackson being awarded an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as one of 13 finalists for the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy, awarded to football’s top scholar/athlete; recently graduated soccer player Nandi Mehta awarded the Walter Byers Scholarship as the nation’s female student-athlete of the year...
The football team is months away from moving into Northwestern’s spectacular new $270 million lakefront facility. Next on the to-do list is dumpy Ryan Field, desperate for a renovation.
Only 33,765 turned out Saturday to watch the Wildcats win for their fifth straight Big Ten game. The seating capacity needs to shrink from 47,330 to around 40,000, chairbacks should supplant bleachers and the restrooms, concessions and concourses need to reflect the current millennium.
School officials will commission an updated facilities master plan before announcing a renovation, likely in 2018 or 2019.
Back in the ’90s, a top administrator told then-coach Gary Barnett: If you win more than six games a year, the faculty will get suspicious.
Now Northwestern’s president makes the trek from Evanston to Rosemont in rush-hour traffic to watch the Wildcats take on Saint Peter’s. And it was Schapiro who recently determined what the seating capacity will be at the new Welsh-Ryan Arena, set to open next fall.
The number: 7,039.
Why those final two digits? Oregon won the first NCAA basketball tournament. It took place at Evanston’s Patten Gymnasium. In 1939.
“It could have been a couple below or above,” Schapiro said. “I figured: Let’s make it 7,039 so we’ll always remember where we started from.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...etball-ranking-greenstein-20171114-story.html
“I was excited,” athletic director Jim Phillips said of the combo. “That’s a new high-water mark for us.”
As Phillips noted, only four other FBS schools could claim the double play: Notre Dame, Michigan State, Miami and USC.
Given that it’s brainy Northwestern, Phillips glowed because of other recent achievements: A 99 percent GSR (graduation success rate) for the football team and 97 percent for all student-athletes; tailback/econ major Justin Jackson being awarded an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as one of 13 finalists for the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy, awarded to football’s top scholar/athlete; recently graduated soccer player Nandi Mehta awarded the Walter Byers Scholarship as the nation’s female student-athlete of the year...
The football team is months away from moving into Northwestern’s spectacular new $270 million lakefront facility. Next on the to-do list is dumpy Ryan Field, desperate for a renovation.
Only 33,765 turned out Saturday to watch the Wildcats win for their fifth straight Big Ten game. The seating capacity needs to shrink from 47,330 to around 40,000, chairbacks should supplant bleachers and the restrooms, concessions and concourses need to reflect the current millennium.
School officials will commission an updated facilities master plan before announcing a renovation, likely in 2018 or 2019.
Back in the ’90s, a top administrator told then-coach Gary Barnett: If you win more than six games a year, the faculty will get suspicious.
Now Northwestern’s president makes the trek from Evanston to Rosemont in rush-hour traffic to watch the Wildcats take on Saint Peter’s. And it was Schapiro who recently determined what the seating capacity will be at the new Welsh-Ryan Arena, set to open next fall.
The number: 7,039.
Why those final two digits? Oregon won the first NCAA basketball tournament. It took place at Evanston’s Patten Gymnasium. In 1939.
“It could have been a couple below or above,” Schapiro said. “I figured: Let’s make it 7,039 so we’ll always remember where we started from.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...etball-ranking-greenstein-20171114-story.html