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Sept. 10, 2010: Northwestern volleyball rallies from a 2-0 deficit to defeat No. 14 Tennessee, 3-2, at a tournament in Athens, Ohio. The victory marked the first time NU rallied from a 2-0 deficit since doing so against No. 15 Purdue on Nov. 4, 2005. Prior to that, the last 2-0 Wildcat rally came in 1993. (read more)
Sept. 19, 2010: Tobias Reitz of men's tennis earns the men's singles championship at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic while teammate Raleigh Smith won runner-up honors. (read more)
Sept. 24, 2010: Northwestern field hockey opens the Big Ten season with a 3-2 win at No. 6 Ohio State behind two goals from eventual Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Chelsea Armstrong. (read more)
Oct. 12, 2010: Women's golfer Lauren Weaver breaks the school's 54-hole tournament scoring record with an 8-under 208 to win medalist honors at the Lady Northern hosted by the Wildcats at Lake Shore Country Club. (read more)
Oct. 23, 2010: Jack Hillgard scores from 75 yards away to give Northwestern men's soccer a 4-3 overtime win at Wisconsin. The win also was the 100th for head coach Tim Lenahan (read more)
Oct. 24, 2010: Northwestern men's golf senior David Lipsky finishes birdie-birdie-birdie-eagle to tie for the win at the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate with a final-round 6-under 66. (read more)
Nov. 11, 2010: Men's swimming head coach Jarod Schroeder earns his first-career Big Ten dual meet victory with a 165-128 win at Wisconsin. (read more)
Nov. 13, 2010: Dan Persa leads Northwestern football to a come-from-behind, 21-17 win over No. 13 Iowa on Senior Day at Ryan Field. (read more)
Nov. 15, 2010: Sophomore cross country runner Audrey Huth earns Northwestern's first NCAA Championships berth since 2002 after she earlier broke the school 6K record by 17 seconds at the NCAA Midwest Regional. (read more)
Nov. 20, 2010: Northwestern football plays the first college football game at Wrigley Field since 1938, attracting ESPN's College Gameday when it takes on Illinois in the Friendly Confines. (read more)
Dec. 3, 2010: Northwestern volleyball defeats No. 20 Arizona, 3-1, in the first round of the NCAA Championship to both reach 20 wins and advance to the second round of the tournament for the first time since 2005. (read more)
Dec. 30, 2010: Wrestling's Brandon Precin defeats No. 1 Matt McDonough of Iowa to earn his second Midlands Championship. He also was named the Art Kraft Champion of Champions at the 2010 Midlands. (read more)
Feb. 6, 2011: Northwestern women's basketball earns a 74-68 win at Ohio State to sweep the season series against the Buckeyes and win for the first time in Columbus since the 1996-97 season. (read more)
Feb. 18, 2011: Northwestern women's swimming breaks two school records a combined three times during Big Ten Championships action. Liza Engstrom broke her own 100 back mark during preliminary action then lowered it again as the leadoff leg of the 400 medley relay. Hannah Points shattered the school record in the 400 IM on the same day. (read more)
March 10, 2011: Michael Thompson sets a Big Ten Tournament record by scoring 35 points in Northwestern's 75-65 win over Minnesota in an opening-round contest at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (read more)
March 16, 2011: Playing their first postseason home game in 17 years, NU men's basketball defeats Milwaukee, 70-61, in a first round National Invitational Tournament contest. (read more)
March 19, 2011: Women's lacrosse plays in Cowboys Stadium, defeating No. 16 William & Mary, 18-8, in the 2011 "Dallax" women's lacrosse event sponsored by womenslax.com. (read more)
March 27, 2011: Women's fencing earns its 12th-consecutive top-10 performance at the NCAA Championships, led by All-America honors for freshman Dina Bazarbayeva and sophomore Dayana Sarkisova. (read more)
April 11, 2011: Amy Jaeschke becomes the first Wildcat in program history to be drafted by a WNBA franchise when the Chicago Sky select her with the 27th pick in the 2011 Draft two weeks after she earned NU's first AP All-America honor since 1998. (read more)
April 24, 2011: Women's golfers Lauren Weaver and Alex Lederhausen finish second and third, respectively, to lead NU to a third-place team finish at the Big Ten Championships hosted by the Wildcats at Lake Shore Country Club. (read more)
May 1, 2011: Women's tennis comes back from a 3-0 deficit to stun top-seeded Michigan in the title match of the Big Ten Championship, capturing its 13th-straight tourney crown. (read more)
May 8, 2011: Freshman Marisa Bast of Northwestern softball hits a grand slam to lead the Wildcats to a 4-1 Senior Day victory over Big Ten-leading Indiana. (read more)
May 21, 2011: Northwestern men's golf plays the back nine at the NCAA Colorado Regional in a combined 9-under par to turn in a final round 12-under 276 and leap from eighth place into third, earning a berth in the NCAA National Championships. (read more)
May 21, 2011: Jack Havey rips three doubles as Northwestern baseball posts a 6-5 victory in its regular-season finale and Big Ten-leading Michigan State. (read more)
May 29, 2011: Behind four goals from tournament MVP Shannon Smith, women's lacrosse wins its sixth national championship in the last seven years with an 8-7 win over No. 1 Maryland. (read more)
| Sport | Dual Record | Big Ten Record | Big Ten Place | NCAA Place |
| Baseball | 20-29 | 10-13 | 8th | - |
| Men's Basketball | 20-14 | 7-11 | 8th | NIT Quarterfinals |
| Women's Basketball | 19-13 | 6-10 | 8th | NIT Second Round |
| Women's Cross Country | - | - | 10th | - |
| Women's Fencing | 41-6 | - | 3rd* | 8th |
| Field Hockey | 11-9 | 3-3 | t-4th | - |
| Football | 7-6 | 3-5 | t-7th | TicketCity Bowl |
| Men's Golf | - | - | 2nd | 22nd |
| Women's Golf | - | - | 3rd | Central Regional |
| Women's Lacrosse | 21-2 | 3-2* | 2nd* | Champion |
| Men's Soccer | 8-8-2 | 2-3-1 | t-4th | - |
| Women's Soccer | 6-10-3 | 2-7-1 | t-8th | - |
| Softball | 23-20 | 5-13 | 10th | - |
| Men's Swimming | 7-7 | 1-6 | 9th | 30th |
| Women's Swimming | 9-5 | 2-5 | 8th | - |
| Men's Tennis | 11-14 | 2-8 | 9th | - |
| Women's Tennis | 22-7 | 9-1 | 2nd | Third Round |
| Women's Volleyball | 20-13 | 9-11 | t-7th | Second Round |
| Wrestling | 18-2 | 6-2 | 7th | 13th |
| * Fencing competes in the Midwest Collegiate Conference; lacrosse competes in the American Lacrosse Conference | ||||