Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball
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| University | Northwestern University | ||
| All-time record | 1006-1473-1 (.406) | ||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||
| Location | Evanston, IL | ||
| Head coach | Chris Collins (5th year) | ||
| Arena |
Allstate Arena (Capacity: 17,500) |
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| Nickname | Wildcats | ||
| Student section | Wildside | ||
| Colors | Purple and White |
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||
| 1931 | |||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | |||
| 1931 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 | |||
| 2017 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 2017 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1931, 1933 | |||
The Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team representing Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference coached by Chris Collins. Men's basketball was first introduced at Northwestern in 1901.
Although Northwestern had great success in the early part of the 20th century, it has spent most of the time since World War II in the bottom half of the Big Ten. The Wildcats were retroactively selected as the 1930–31 national champion by both the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll, and have won only one other conference title, in 1933. It has only finished above fourth place twice since World War II, and did not have a winning record in conference play from 1968 until 2017, with the 2003–04 team finishing with a .500 conference record. On March 1, 2017, the Wildcats won their 10th conference game (a 67-65 win over Michigan) to clinch a winning record in Big ten play. That season also saw the Wildcats make their first NCAA Tournament in school history, winning their first NCAA tournament game 68-66 against Vanderbilt. The Wildcats have also appeared in the National Invitation Tournament seven times (1983, 1994, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).
The very first NCAA tournament championship was held at Northwestern in March 1939 Until making their first NCAA Tournament in 2017, Northwestern had been one of five original NCAA Division I schools to have never played an NCAA Tournament game and the only school from a Power Five conference.
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
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