Need another sign that this college basketball season has gone haywire? Northwestern made its debut in the AP Poll this week and is pushing to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
The AP Poll didn’t have Northwestern basketball’s logo, so the Wildcats provided it
The Wildcats are ranked for the first time since 2009-10.
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
The Wildcats check in at No. 25 in the polls this week, their first appearance in the rankings since 2009-10. Northwestern being a ranked team is so unexpected the AP didn’t even have the school’s logo on hand. The program’s Twitter account got salty about it:
Now: is it really that hard for the AP to find a picture of Northwestern’s logo? It shouldn’t be. But also: why does that Northwestern logo look like a sideways Z?
At 18-4 and 7-2 in the conference, Northwestern is putting itself in a great position to receive an at-large bid. The Wildcats will be tested over the next two weeks, with games against No. 23 Purdue, No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 17 Maryland on the schedule.
Win a couple of those games and no one will forget their logo.
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