Northwestern Wildcats
We’re back with another positional review at InsideNU, where we break down each group’s quality, depth and expectations entering the 2026 season. This summer, we’ve published position previews...
Northwestern volleyball entered last season hoping its rebuild was moving in the right direction. By the end of the fall, the answer was affirmative. The hiring of Tim Nollan in 2024 marked a new...
Another day, another member of the 2023 NFL Draft class getting PAID. On Friday, it was Peter Skoronski. The Tennessee Titans just made Skoronski — who played his college ball at Northwestern —...
Sandwiched between road trips against two of the conference’s best, Iowa visits the new Ryan Field on Nov. 7. The Hawkeyes are coming off a very impressive 8-4 regular season, but there are still...
With one month remaining until the start of Northwestern’s football season, head coach David Braun and his team are officially in fall camp and making final preparations for September. The Big Ten...
CHICAGO – As Northwestern prepares to play its first game at the new Ryan Field this fall, coach David Braun urged NU fans and the greater Chicago area to show up for the Wildcats. The stadium,...
Welcome back to the NUFH Notebook! This week, we’re taking a deeper dive into the newest additions to Tracey Fuchs’ squad. 2026 will prove to be a pivotal year for the ‘Cats, with massive turnover...
Inside NU is back with another positional breakdown as part of its 2026 preview series! This week, we’ll analyze the offensive line, a group that has traditionally been a strength of Wildcat...
Northwestern volleyball is a program clearly on the rise. After finishing 5-23 in 2024, the Wildcats improved to 17-15 in 2025, a significant turnaround credited to an improved roster and greater...
Northwestern coach David Braun addressed media members this week at the Hilton Chicago at Big Ten Media Days. Here is everything that transpired.
Happy Halloween. Northwestern’s real gauntlet begins on Oct. 31 when it travels to Autzen Stadium to take on Oregon. Ever since joining the Big Ten, the Ducks have been among the top teams in the...
Northwestern coach David Braun raved about the team's offense under new offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, saying his arrival at the program marked a "transformative change."
Northwestern coach David Braun raved about the team's offense under new offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, saying his arrival at the program marked a "transformative change."
With the season quickly approaching, all 18 Big Ten programs were represented at the Big Ten football media days by their head coaches and a selection of players at the Hilton Chicago who gave...
The coach of the reigning national champs threw a not-so-subtle jab at his neighbors to the south to close out Big Ten Media Days from Chicago
With just under a week to go before its preseason opener against Notre Dame, Northwestern Women’s Soccer is back in session with a fresh roster ready to be tested in 2026. The ‘Cats have lost six...
Northwestern men’s soccer recently released its schedule for the upcoming 2026 fall season. With a top 25 recruiting class garnering excitement for the upcoming season, and opening kickoff just...
Another week is upon us, meaning it’s time for Inside NU’s next edition of our position preview series on Northwestern football’s 2026 roster, where we’ll analyze every group’s depth and...
After finishing last season with an 8-6-3 record and just missing out on Big Ten and NCAA Division I postseason play, Northwestern is hungry for improvement. Northwestern added 10 recruits and...
The back-to-back national champs begin their quest for a third consecutive national title and fourth in program history. As always, more focused position breakdowns will be coming from Inside NU...
Northwestern’s third game ever in the new Ryan Field welcomes Rutgers to Evanston on Oct. 24. The last time the Wildcats faced the Scarlet Knights was to open the 2023 season, in which Rutgers won...
Back in May, Inside NU wrote about how Golden State’s Veronica Burton and Minnesota’s Nia Coffey — the only former Northwestern Wildcats playing in the WNBA — were both entering crossroads in...
Since the program’s revival in 2002, Northwestern women’s lacrosse has achieved immense success on the field, winning its ninth national championship this spring after qualifying for 22 straight...
This is quite the sight to behold as the Wildcats build a new stadium.
Northwestern’s brand-new Ryan Field will host both Wildcats and Wildkits this fall. The Evanston Township High School Wildkits will play their longtime rivals, the New Trier High School Trevians,...
Northwestern’s brand-new Ryan Field will host both Wildcats and Wildkits this fall. The Evanston Township High School Wildkits will play their longtime rivals, the New Trier High School Trevians,...
2025 was the third consecutive winning season in the first five years at the helm for men’s soccer head coach Russell Payne, and he had the Wildcats playing their best soccer in his tenure. A...
With just six weeks remaining until Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium is once again packed with purple, Inside NU will continue to preview the 2026 team through our weekly position...
College athletics have long been finished; the New York Knicks and Carolina Hurricanes are already champions; the only NFL news is Travis Kelce’s wedding and the dreaded dog days of baseball are...
The national anthem stretched on for what felt like forever. Long, electric guitar riffs that hung in the humid Evanston air, bouncing off the lake and reverberating through the temporary...
For Northwestern’s second road game of the season, the Wildcats will be up against a very familiar face as they take on Pat Fitzgerald’s Michigan State Spartans. Yup, Pat Fitzgerald. On Oct. 17,...
After finishing 15-19 (5-15 Big Ten), Northwestern has begun to finalize its schedule for the upcoming year. Northwestern’s conference schedule has already been announced, with home-and-home...
Graduate student goalkeeper Jenika Cuocco stood tall between the pipes. It was the fourth quarter of the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship at Martin Stadium in May, and Northwestern...
We are now seven weeks from Northwestern football’s season opener against South Dakota State, and Inside NU is counting the days with a position preview series. Each week, we’ll break down a...
Two Northwestern baseball players are officially on the path to their sport’s highest level following this year’s MLB Draft. Rising senior Ryan Kucherak was selected by the San Diego Padres in...
After finishing last season with a 17-15 overall record and 7-13 Big Ten record, Northwestern looks poised to take yet another major step forward. Several key pieces of last year’s roster...
In the current NIL era, with complete freedom of player movement and consistent waiver applications for extra eligibility based on injuries or playing time, the college sports world has been in...
EA Sports recently dropped its third edition of its college football video game, College Football 27, just 51 days before the start of the season. That means its time to take a peek at how it...
For the fifth game on Northwestern’s schedule, Ball State is coming to Evanston on Oct. 10 to try and pull off a shocking upset. As the third and final non-conference game on the Wildcats’...
Northwestern’s academic year might start in late September, but Northwestern women’s soccer is gearing up to kick off a nice and early August start to its season. Having finished eighth out of 18...
The college football landscape is wild. What used to be a simple eligibility rule morphed into redshirts, redshirts and more redshirts. The NCAA would like college sports to sit at an amateur...
Northwestern volleyball is entering year three of the Tim Nollan era, and the team will be looking for reinforcements in all directions as it hopes to take another step toward becoming a...
67.7%. That’s how much of Northwestern baseball’s offensive production, by RBI, is departing Evanston. Ben Greenspan had done well in his first three years with the ‘Cats, building back toward...
As Jack Lausch (SESP ‘25) signed to become a quarterback for Northwestern football, he kept another sport in the back of his mind. “I always felt like if baseball is meant for me, it would come...
The Northwestern Wildcats were bowl-bound this past season. But whether they can do it again is a bigger question.
We are officially eight weeks from Northwestern football’s season opener against South Dakota State, and InsideNU is commemorating the occasion with the first edition of our position preview...
For what is supposed to be the first ever game played at the new Ryan Field, it’s a Friday showdown between Northwestern and the new-look Penn State team with a new head coach and an influx of...
When people talk about the greatest college basketball teams of all time, they mention Duke, Kentucky, UCLA and several other historically great programs. The term “blue blood” refers to the elite...
The ‘Cats have scored with their brand new pick-up. Gigi Ganje, the rising junior transfer from the University of Pennsylvania, will join the purple and white following two seasons as the backbone...
Northwestern has signed 13 recruits in the past month, adding to the now group of 20 players committed for its class of 2027. Head Coach David Braun’s fourth recruiting cycle is shaping up to be...