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EVANSTON, Ill. -- Vic Law had a career-high 18 points, Scottie Lindsey added 17 and Northwestern opened its fourth season under coach Chris Collins with a 94-63 rout of Mississippi Valley State on Friday night.For Law, it was a triumphant return after all of last season following shoulder surgery. He played in all 32 games (19 starts) as a freshman two years ago.It gave me a new appreciation for the game, Law said. Last year ... when we lost a tough one, I would think about what I could have done to make a difference.Sanjay Lumpkin, Bryant McIntosh and Isiah Brown had 11 points apiece as the Wildcats won their ninth straight season opener. McIntosh, the teams leading returning scorer, was just 1 for 6 on 3-pointers.Law made 7 of 10 from the field -- including 3 of 4 on 3-pointers -- but was just 1 for 7 from the free-throw line.Marcus Romain led Mississippi Valley State with 16 points on 5-for-8 shooting.I didnt like the way we played defense at the start of the game, MVSU coach Andre Payne said. We got after it a little better in the second half, but that start set us back.Northwestern grabbed a double-digit lead 6 1/2 minutes into the game and never looked back. The lead was 46-28 at halftime and MVS never threatened in the second half.That first game of the season is very difficult from an emotional standpoint, Collins said. For us to come out and play the way we did early, I was very impressed.BIG PICTUREMississippi Valley State: The Delta Devils were 8-27 last season -- including a 6-12 mark in the SWAC -- and another long campaign seems likely. Romain, the second-leading scorer in the SWAC last season at 18.6 points, is a bright spot.Northwestern: Coming off a school-record 20 wins last season, the Wildcats begin with the goal of reaching the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. To do so, theyll have to replace the leadership and production of Tre Demps, the leading-scorer last season at 15.7 points.THROW IT DOWNLaw announced his return with a steal in the backcourt and a flying dunk a few minutes into the game.I felt relief -- thats the emotion I felt, he said. It energized me for the rest of the game.BOUNCING BACKBrown, the heralded freshman from Seattle, was much better in the second half after playing just five first-half minutes from picking up two fouls. Hell be counted on as a spark off the bench to fill some of the void left by the departure of Demps.Hes the kind of guy that can change a game, Collins said of Brown. 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This is only the fifth instance of overseas opening pairs batting for more than 30 overs in the second innings in India during this period, and four of them have involved Cook: with Andrew Strauss in 2006, with Nick Compton in 2012, and twice with Hameed in this series. 1.49 The partnership run rate between Cook and Hameed, Englands lowest for an opening stand lasting 100 or more balls in Tests (where balls-faced data is available). The previous lowest was 1.60, between Cook and Compton in Nagpur in 2012.11 Fifty-plus scores for Cook in the fourth innings of Tests; only four batsmen have more: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Graeme Smith (13 each), and Gavaskar (122).dddddddddddd.171 Balls faced by Cook for his half-century, the slowest of his career; his previous slowest took 164 balls, against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2013, and against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2012.4 Openers under the age of 20 who have faced 100-plus balls in the fourth innings of a Test: Zahid Fazal (Pakistan), Nafees Iqbal (Bangladesh), Archie Jackson (Australia), and Hameed.13 Wickets for Adil Rashid in the series so far, the fourth best by any overseas legspinner in the last 50 years in India. Overall, there are only six instances of overseas legspinners taking more wickets in a Test series in India. 1959 The last time an England legspinner took more than 13 wickets in any series: Tommy Greenhough, who had a four-Test career, took 14 from three Tests in a home series against India in 1959. Before that, Roly Jenkins took 16 in South Africa in 1948.140 The most overs England have faced in the fourth innings in Asia, in Kandy in 2003. Their highest in any fourth innings is 218.2 eight-ball overs (291 six-ball overs), while their best in the last 60 years is 165 overs, in Johannesburg in 1995. With inputs from Shiva Jayaraman. ' ' '