Big Ten Basketball: Preseason power rankings for 2020-21 season

By Adam Childs | Sep 16, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: Big Ten logo on the floor before the Big Ten Men's Basketball Final against the Wisconsin Badgers and Michigan Wolverines at the Verizon Center on March 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. The Wolverines won 71-56. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** /

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EVANSTON, IL – DECEMBER 04: Head coach Chris Collins of the Northwestern Wildcats (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images) /

489. . . . Wildcats . 14. team

The Wildcats 2019-20 season started off with a bang. Just not the one they were looking for. They got upset by Merrimack and never really seemed to recover. They did somehow beat Providence, but that was before they woke up for the season.

Chris Collins actually did a great job of keeping this team together and they did make a decent amount of games competitive. They even finished the year beating a very good Penn State team to close out their season

Miller Kopp returns along with Pete Nance and Boo Buie to try and improve on a disappointing year last year. Kopp led the team in scoring last year at 13.1 points per game and Buie also averaged in double figures.

The problem for the Wildcats is they just don’t have a lot of talent and they don’t have much coming in for help. They will be like other years were they play slow and try and frustrate you but usually come up short. This year shouldn’t be much different.

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