Going 5-2 in the month of January, the NIU men’s basketball team finished better than such touted Big 10 programs as Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State and Penn State. On Saturday, the Huskies (10-9, 6-3) got off on the...

Editor’s note: Tuesday Commentary will be a weekly column by the Star Sports staff brining local news to life and national news home. Is this Northern Illinois University? Just a few years removed from having the worst football team in the nation and...

There’s no place like home. However, the NIU track and field team is without a true home this year, even with the new track inside the $36 million Convocation Center. The Huskies have no scheduled home track meets. The problem is not because of the...

Rob Judson hopes that the Convocation Center is as kind to the Huskies as the road has been recently when NIU hosts Eastern Michigan on Saturday at 2 p.m. NIU (7-8 overall 3-2 MAC) is coming off of its first road sweep in more than 30 years after winning...

The Huskie men’s basketball team will try to do something that hasn’t been accomplished since the 1971-’72 season; sweep a road trip. NIU (6-8, 2-2 MAC) will travel to Ohio (4-7, 1-2 MAC) to battle the Bobcats at 7 p.m. and try to win its third...

Down only two points at the half, the NIU men’s basketball team were blown away in the second half against Marshall, 75-57 on Saturday. A career-high 17 points for Mike Morrison was not enough of an inside presence to hold off the Thundering Herd. The...

After focusing on post players in last year’s recruiting class, the NIU basketball team signed two combo guards. Naperville Central’s Ryan Paradise and Evanston’s Michael McKinney signed national letters of intent on Wednesday. "We’re real happy...

NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson was looking for his team to show improvement from last Tuesday, and it responded by beating the NBC Thunder 98-66. "We took steps forward tonight from our first exhibition game," Judson said. "Our transition defense...

In its second exhibition game of the season, the NIU men’s basketball team will take on the NBC Thunder at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at the Convocation Center. The Thunder, sponsored by Northwest Basketball Camps, defeated Eastern Illinois on Monday by a score...

The first men’s basketball game at the Convocation Center wasn’t a game for the memory books, as NIU coach Rob Judson left the game with mixed feelings after the Huskies fell to Team Nike 93-84 in an exhibition contest. "I like the way our offense...

Nowhere is a home-field advantage more valuable than in college basketball. In the past, the home court hasn’t been as big an advantage for NIU as it is for other schools. With the new Convocation Center, NIU hopes to make the stadium a place of fear...

On Saturday morning, the NIU men’s basketball team was on display to about 150 fans at the new Convocation Center in an intra-squad scrimmage. With three 10-minute quarters, the teams were mixed up each quarter so second-year coach Rob Judson could...