Just as an aside, it was Woods that drew the McIntosh assignment after he started out hot in the 2nd half. He was even in full ball denial from around the 6 minute mark on if I recall. Crawford got a shot at him to close out the game. He hung 28 on Wisconsin last year in a win - they made the Sweet 16. Sometimes a good player catches fire - he hit some open shots but hit a bunch of extremely difficult shots over multiple defenders.
The sky-is-falling stuff is par for the course, but teams are going to go cold in hostile gyms, especially early in the season. To me the killer was Woods not stepping up until the end when he was fouled on the drive then nailed that 3. With the starters struggling (13% from 3) he was 50% from 3 and 100% from the line. We maybe win that game if we make getting him even decently open looks from 3 a priority (or if he'd looked for his shot as much as Crawford did). After Collins he could be our best overall player, and he's not a 1 year rental like Arians. The truth is he's too good not to start, and there's a good chance that putting him in a secondary role lost this game.
Wilbekin did what Wilbekin often does against solid defenses - 1 field goal, 1 board, 0 assists, 0 steals. It's time to sit him and let our best 5 start. It took us 15 minutes to get Woods his 2nd shot attempt in this game while our starters were shooting 10%. Simply can't do that and beat good teams, which Northwestern is.