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The Northwestern Wildcats reside in the city of Evanston and have a campus in Chicago along Lake Michigan. Northwestern remains the only Division I FBS institution in the Chicago area. Over the last several years, the Northwestern Wildcats have increased their presence in the Chicago area through relationships with Chicago sports teams and venues.
The 2024–25 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team represents Northwestern University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They are led by 12th-year head coach Chris Collins. The Wildcats play their home games at Welsh–Ryan Arena in Evanston, Illinois as members of the Big Ten Conference.
Its football mascot is the Wildcat, a term coined by a Chicago Tribune reporter in 1924, after reporting on a football game where the players appeared as "a wall of purple wildcats". [2] Northwestern Football is also marketed as "Chicago's Big Ten Team" with its proximity and ties to Chicago.
[10] [11] [12] Northwestern won their first Tournament game, defeating Vanderbilt 68–66. [13] The Wildcats lost in the Second Round to No. 1-seeded Gonzaga. [14] In 1998, two former players were charged and convicted for sports bribery, having been paid to shave points in games against three other Big Ten schools during the 1995 season. [15 ...
Northwestern's hazing scandal already has cost the university its winningest football coach and a once-pristine reputation. The Wildcats were missing a presence at the Big Ten's annual football ...
The 2024 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach David Braun .
Northwestern was invited to the TicketCity Bowl after posting a 7–5 record in the regular season. The Wildcats made a school-record third-consecutive bowl appearance. The Wildcats had not won a bowl game since defeating California in the 1949 Rose Bowl. They fell to Auburn, 38–35, in overtime of the Outback Bowl last season.
CHICAGO — That first night in Kenosha, Wis., Nathan Fox remembers, was like something from a horror movie. A horde of older teammates was outside his dorm room, he said, screaming and sounding a ...