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By Mark Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if this season ends in Salt Lake City Thursday, Chris Collins has firmly cemented his legacy as the greatest basketball coach in Northwestern history. Now the question for Collins is, does he want to add to his legacy in Evanston or somewhere else?<\/p>\n

Judging by his comments on Selection Sunday, Collins doesn\u2019t seem poised to leave this team anytime soon. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the end game,\u201d he said after the Wildcats secured the No. 8 seed in the West Sunday. \u201cTo me, this is the beginning of Northwestern basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The complete lack of success at Northwestern actually helped the school pull Collins away from coach Mike Krzyzewski\u2019s shadow at Duke four years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am my own guy,\u201d Collins said on April 2, 2013, his first day as head coach at Northwestern. \u201cI am going to blaze my own path, and this is the right place for me to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides Collins\u2019s comments from Sunday and April 2013, Northwestern fans can also look at his recent actions as an indication of his commitment to the Wildcats. After the 2014-15 season, Collins signed a multiyear contact extension that he said would keep him in Evanston for the \u201cforeseeable future.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the possibility of Collins leaving Northwestern can\u2019t be ruled out. <\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely think people expect him, when he gets success, to leave,\u201d junior guard Scottie Lindsey said. \u201cBut he\u2019s already built something special here. Why would you leave that?\u201d<\/p>\n

To take over one of the top programs in the country, perhaps. <\/p>\n

While Collins, 42, brought the Northwestern men\u2019s basketball team to the school\u2019s relative mountaintop with the Wildcats\u2019s first NCAA Tournament berth, he merely accomplished the ordinary in relation to elite coaches at prestigious programs. <\/p>\n

Take, for instance, Collins\u2019s mentor at his alma mater, Duke\u2019s Krzyzewski. After leading the Blue Devils to the NCAA Tournament for a 33rd time Sunday, \u201cCoach K\u201d broke a tie with Syracuse\u2019s Jim Boehim for the most trips to the tournament by an active coach. <\/p>\n

Coach K set the record under difficult circumstances. The coach was forced to miss seven games after undergoing back surgery in January to remove a fragment of a herniated disc. This comes after having knee replacement surgery last April and inguinal hernia surgery a month later.<\/p>\n

Krzyzewski said he doesn\u2019t have \u201cplans for the future\u201d last summer, but it\u2019s unclear how much longer the 70-year-old coach will remain at the head of Duke\u2019s bench. Current Duke assistant Jim Capel, who went 4-3 as interim coach while Krzyzewski recovered from his back surgery, is rumored to be a leading candidate to replace Coach K when that day comes.<\/p>\n

Another leading name is a former Duke assistant: Collins. Duke appears to be one of the only schools, if not the only, which could tempt Collins into leaving Northwestern. <\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Andy Katz said Collins is a strong contender to replace Coach K, but the veteran college basketball reporter also noted he doesn\u2019t think Collins will leave Evanston anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would [be surprised if Collins left Northwestern],\u201d Katz wrote in an email. \u201cI think he wants to forge his own path.\u201d <\/p>\n

After accomplishing in four years what others at Northwestern couldn\u2019t in the previous 74 years, Collins has cemented the first steps of his path. Whether that path leads to Tobacco Road remains to be seen. <\/p>\n

Photo at top: Northwestern basketball head coach Chris Collins answers questions at team press conference in Welsh-Ryan Arena. (Yifan Wu\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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