Northwestern Wildcats
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Big Ten
canonical name from espn_mbb
Ratings · 2025
| Dimension | Value | Unit | σ |
|---|---|---|---|
| OE | 1.18 | points per possession | 0.13 |
| DE | 0.98 | points per possession | 0.14 |
| ME | 0.20 | points per possession | 0.19 |
| PACE | 64.77 | possessions per game | 4.49 |
At season 2025's latest cutoff
(2025-04-08 00:50),
with 33 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
Show AdjME · AdjOE · AdjDE · AdjPace
Warm-up shown · hide
train_cutoff_at — a walk-forward replay for season 2025.
Axis spans 0.81 to 1.44 over
135 cutoffs. The shaded band is the model's own ±2σ
(AdjOE_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
18).
This line is the smoothed rating: an exponentially-weighted causal
average of this team's own history (alpha 0.75 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 · 2025
| Season | W | L | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | 16 | 0.515 |
Countable games per NCAA policy — includes non-D1, which count for the record and not for the ratings.
Vendor names
| Source | Name | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| cbbd | Northwestern | auto |
Schedule & results
| Date | S | Matchup | Score | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-13 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Wisconsin N | 63–70 | conf_tournament |
| 2025-03-12 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Minnesota N | 72–64 | conf_tournament |
| 2025-03-08 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Maryland | 61–74 | regular |
| 2025-03-04 | 2025 | UCLA @ Northwestern | 73–69 | regular |
| 2025-03-01 | 2025 | Iowa @ Northwestern | 57–68 | regular |
| 2025-02-26 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Minnesota | 75–63 | regular |
| 2025-02-20 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Ohio State | 70–49 | regular |
| 2025-02-16 | 2025 | Nebraska @ Northwestern | 68–64 | regular |
| 2025-02-12 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Oregon | 75–81 | regular |
| 2025-02-09 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Washington | 71–76 | regular |
| 2025-02-05 | 2025 | USC @ Northwestern | 75–77 | regular |
| 2025-02-01 | 2025 | Wisconsin @ Northwestern | 75–69 | regular |
| 2025-01-30 | 2025 | Rutgers @ Northwestern | 79–72 | regular |
| 2025-01-26 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Illinois | 74–83 | regular |
| 2025-01-23 | 2025 | Indiana @ Northwestern | 70–79 | regular |
| 2025-01-19 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Michigan | 76–80 | regular |
| 2025-01-17 | 2025 | Maryland @ Northwestern | 74–76 | regular |
| 2025-01-12 | 2025 | Michigan State @ Northwestern | 78–68 | regular |
| 2025-01-05 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Purdue | 61–79 | regular |
| 2025-01-03 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Penn State | 80–84 | regular |
| 2024-12-29 | 2025 | Northeastern @ Northwestern | 60–85 | regular |
| 2024-12-21 | 2025 | DePaul @ Northwestern | 64–84 | regular |
| 2024-12-15 | 2025 | Georgia Tech @ Northwestern N | 60–71 | regular |
| 2024-12-07 | 2025 | Illinois @ Northwestern | 66–70 | regular |
| 2024-12-04 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Iowa | 79–80 | regular |
| 2024-11-30 | 2025 | UNLV @ Northwestern N | 61–66 | regular |
| 2024-11-29 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Butler N | 69–71 | regular |
| 2024-11-23 | 2025 | Pepperdine @ Northwestern | 50–68 | regular |
| 2024-11-20 | 2025 | Montana State @ Northwestern | 69–72 | regular |
| 2024-11-16 | 2025 | Eastern Illinois @ Northwestern | 58–67 | regular |
| 2024-11-13 | 2025 | UIC @ Northwestern | 74–83 | regular |
| 2024-11-10 | 2025 | Northwestern @ Dayton | 66–71 | regular |
| 2024-11-05 | 2025 | Lehigh @ Northwestern | 46–90 | regular |