Northwestern basketball coach Chris Collins plopped into his car outside Welsh-Ryan Arena on Sunday, took a deep breath and shut the door. He was less than five minutes from home.
Four hours earlier, the only game of the day involving a Top 25 team had tipped off. With the Super Bowl on tap, how many viewers were going to be interested enough in No. 1 Purdue’s visit to Evanston to tune in at all, let alone make it to the end of the game?
