2023-10-25: Play Index Update.

We continue to work on moving all of the CBB Play Index content to Stathead.com/Basketball. This process has taken longer than expected, so we are allowing continued use of the these tools on CBB until the new tools are available.

We don't have a firm timeline for the launch of CBB on Stathead, but we fully intend to have it available well before the end of the 2023-24 season for both men's and women's basketball.

Because we will soon be taking down this page, we have not added coverage for women's stats to these tools. We apologize for this omission.

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Matchup Finder

Search historical schedules and rankings back to the 1949-50 season.
Schedules prior to the 1994-95 season may be missing games vs. non-Division I opponents.

Note that the AP has ranked a variable number of teams since it began in 1948-49.

 1948-49 through 1960-61: top 20
 1961-62 through 1963-64: top 10
 1964-65: top 10, except for preseason which was top 20
 1965-66 through 1967-68: top 10
 1968-69 through 1988-89: top 20
 1989-90 through present: top 25

Current search:
From 1949-50 to 2016-17, for Northwestern, against Penn State, sorted by descending Date

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Try our NCAA Tournament Matchup Finder for even more Tournament-related search options

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17 Wins, 29 Losses, .370 W%

Query Results

Query Results Table
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2016-172016-12-27Northwestern@Penn StateW877710
2015-162016-03-03Northwestern@Penn StateW716110
2015-162016-01-16NorthwesternPenn StateL6271-9
2014-152015-02-21NorthwesternPenn StateW603921
2013-142014-03-06NorthwesternPenn StateL3259-27
2012-132013-03-07NorthwesternPenn StateL5966-7
2012-132013-01-10Northwestern@Penn StateW705416
2011-122012-02-25Northwestern@Penn StateW67661
2011-122012-01-01NorthwesternPenn StateW685612
2010-112011-02-24NorthwesternPenn StateL5266-14
2010-112011-02-13Northwestern@Penn StateL4165-24
2009-102010-02-28Northwestern@Penn StateL6079-19
2009-102010-02-17NorthwesternPenn StateL7081-11
2008-092008-12-31Northwestern@Penn StateL5761-4
2007-082008-01-02NorthwesternPenn StateL6879-11
2006-072007-02-10NorthwesternPenn StateW53512
2006-072007-01-03Northwestern@Penn StateL5783-26
2005-062006-03-09NorthwesternPenn StateL4260-18
2005-062006-02-25Northwestern@Penn StateL5568-13
2005-062006-01-11NorthwesternPenn StateL6165-4
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2004-052005-02-19NorthwesternPenn StateW543915
2004-052005-01-22Northwestern@Penn StateL6265-3
2003-042004-03-11NorthwesternPenn StateW57525
2003-042004-02-14NorthwesternPenn StateW655213
2003-042004-01-28Northwestern@Penn StateL6163-21
2002-032003-03-01NorthwesternPenn StateW857962
2001-022002-02-16Northwestern@Penn StateW55496
2000-012001-02-21NorthwesternPenn StateW62611
2000-012001-01-13Northwestern@Penn StateL6673-7
1999-002000-02-16Northwestern@Penn StateL6473-9
1999-002000-01-13NorthwesternPenn StateL4982-33
1998-991999-03-04NorthwesternPenn StateW544410
1998-991999-02-06Northwestern@Penn StateW71674
1998-991999-01-20NorthwesternPenn StateW626021
1997-981998-02-08NorthwesternPenn StateL6869-11
1997-981998-01-22Northwestern@Penn StateL4583-38
1996-971997-02-15Northwestern@Penn StateL5561-6
1996-971997-01-22NorthwesternPenn StateL6971-2
1995-961996-02-28Northwestern@Penn State12L6278-16
1995-961996-01-13NorthwesternPenn State20L7483-91
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
1994-951995-02-22NorthwesternPenn StateL5989-30
1994-951995-01-21Northwestern@Penn StateL5179-28
1993-941994-03-02Northwestern@Penn StateL7173-2
1993-941994-01-29NorthwesternPenn StateL7580-5
1992-931993-02-13NorthwesternPenn StateW67589
1992-931993-01-13Northwestern@Penn StateL6870-2
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