Northwestern Wildcats
womens
canonical name from espn_wbb
Ratings · 2026
| Dimension | Value | Unit | σ |
|---|---|---|---|
| OE | 1.04 | points per possession | 0.13 |
| DE | 0.96 | points per possession | 0.13 |
| ME | 0.07 | points per possession | 0.18 |
| PACE | 67.46 | possessions per game | 4.64 |
At season 2026's latest cutoff
(2026-04-05 19:30),
with 29 games played. OE is points scored
per possession, DE points allowed per possession, and the adjusted margin (ME) is their
difference — so 0.47 reads as +0.47 pts per possession, not 0.47 points. PACE is
possessions per game, a count, not a per-possession rate. The σ column shares
its row's unit.
Ratings over time
Season 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2015 · 2014
Show AdjME · AdjOE · AdjDE · AdjPace
Warm-up shown · hide
train_cutoff_at — a walk-forward replay for season 2026.
Axis spans 57.89 to 123.81 over
129 cutoffs. The shaded band is the model's own ±2σ
(AdjPace_sigma) — it is widest early, when few games have been
played.
The dashed rule is the mean warm-up gate: left of it the team had
played fewer than 18 games, where the rating has not yet settled (a rating
is a mean, so it gates on the mean curve; the prediction-σ gate is later or equal at
25).
This line is the smoothed rating: an exponentially-weighted causal
average of this team's own history (alpha 0.65 on each
factor), fitted once on five seasons and frozen — it removes cutoff-to-cutoff fit
noise without pulling the team toward the league mean.Record · 2026
| Season | W | L | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 21 | 0.276 |
Countable games per NCAA policy — includes non-D1, which count for the record and not for the ratings.
Vendor names
| Source | Name | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| espn_wbb | Northwestern | auto |
Schedule & results
| Date | S | Matchup | Score | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | 2026 | Purdue @ Northwestern | 67–62 | regular |
| 2026-02-25 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Maryland | 57–79 | regular |
| 2026-02-22 | 2026 | Illinois @ Northwestern | 92–65 | regular |
| 2026-02-18 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Michigan State | 68–104 | regular |
| 2026-02-15 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Penn State | 71–81 | regular |
| 2026-02-13 | 2026 | Michigan @ Northwestern | 80–58 | regular |
| 2026-02-06 | 2026 | USC @ Northwestern | 83–65 | regular |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Indiana | 75–89 | regular |
| 2026-01-29 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Nebraska | 73–89 | regular |
| 2026-01-25 | 2026 | UCLA @ Northwestern | 80–46 | regular |
| 2026-01-18 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Illinois | 71–74 | regular |
| 2026-01-16 | 2026 | Wisconsin @ Northwestern | 61–66 | regular |
| 2026-01-11 | 2026 | Rutgers @ Northwestern | 54–73 | regular |
| 2026-01-09 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Minnesota | 47–79 | regular |
| 2026-01-06 | 2026 | Iowa @ Northwestern | 67–58 | regular |
| 2026-01-01 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Oregon | 54–87 | regular |
| 2025-12-30 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Washington | 73–94 | regular |
| 2025-12-21 | 2026 | Northwestern @ George Washington | 62–75 | regular |
| 2025-12-18 | 2026 | Loyola Chicago @ Northwestern | 69–68 | regular |
| 2025-12-14 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Utah | 66–91 | regular |
| 2025-12-07 | 2026 | Ohio State @ Northwestern | 79–70 | regular |
| 2025-12-04 | 2026 | Kansas @ Northwestern | 74–62 | regular |
| 2025-11-29 | 2026 | Northwestern @ Missouri N | 70–85 | regular |
| 2025-11-28 | 2026 | Abilene Christian @ Northwestern N | 59–62 | regular |
| 2025-11-22 | 2026 | Cleveland State @ Northwestern | 68–75 | regular |
| 2025-11-17 | 2026 | Northwestern @ DePaul | 79–72 | regular |
| 2025-11-15 | 2026 | Maryland Eastern Shore @ Northwestern | 54–69 | regular |
| 2025-11-09 | 2026 | SIU Edwardsville @ Northwestern | 51–64 | regular |
| 2025-11-06 | 2026 | IU Indianapolis @ Northwestern | 64–67 | regular |