For the NIU women’s basketball team, the road has been anything but kind this season.

It appears it may not get any better for coach Carol Hammerle’s team when it faces Ohio (5-12, 1-5) today at 7 p.m. in Athens. Starting forward Kim Boeding will miss the game and guard Kristen Knake is likely to miss with an injury.

NIU (7-10, 3-3) has not had a player miss a game with an injury so far this season, but will have two as Boeding battles vertigo and Knake recovers from a sprained ankle she suffered against Marshall.

So far this season, the Huskies have won only one game away from the Convocation Center. That win came against San Jose State at a neutral court in Bozeman, Mont.

As for the home court, the Huskies are 6-2 at home but face the Bobcats and Bowling Green in consecutive games on the road.

For Ohio, the Bobcats are led in scoring by sophomore Andrea Johnson. The 5-foot-9 guard averages 12.6 points per game followed by junior guard Candace Bates.

The Bobcats start Johnson, Bates and Andrea Gay in the three-guard lineup to go along with 6-foot Erin Isbell and 5-foot-11 Lindsay Wight.

With the loss of Boeding and possibly Knake, the Huskies will look again to forward Jennifer Youngblood. The senior averages 14 points and eight rebounds, and will be expected to take even more of the scoring load with 20 points of offense on the bench.

Wednesday night’s game will mark the 19th contest between the two schools with the series deadlocked at nine. Last season, the Huskies overcame a 10-point second-half deficit to leave Chick Evans Field House with a 66-57 win, which marked the second straight triumph for NIU..