In April 1996, women's basketball proclaimed "We Got Next" with the tipoff of the WNBA. Now, the women's movement continues with the inaugural season of the WUSA, a new Women's Professional Soccer League, ready to start. Founded by a group of wealthy...

NIU men's basketball interim coach Andy Greer felt relieved that his Huskies finally snapped a nine-game losing streak. The Huskies defeated Eastern Michigan 62-57, putting them at 5-20 for the season and 4-12 in the Mid-American Conference. "It feels...

Leon Rodgers' eclipsing the career 1,000-point mark wasn't enough to lift the NIU men's basketball team over Marshall, as the Huskies fell 81-65 Thursday night against the Thundering Herd in Huntington, W.Va. Tallying 16 points, the 6-foot-6-inch junior...

The NIU men's basketball team looks for revenge tonight at Marshall. The battleground is Henderson Center in Huntington, W.Va., where the Huskies will meet the Thundering Herd for the second time this season. Tipoff is at 6 p.m. In their first game Feb....

Walter Thompson will sit out for the rest of the season after being suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the NIU men's basketball team. The suspension takes effect immediately. Thompson will miss the Huskies' last four games of the season....

This weekend's Alumni basketball game ended on a jumper at the buzzer by NIU's early 1970s star and Chicago Bulls draftee Billy "The Kid" Harris. Tying up the game at a 65-all deadlock, Harris led the White team with 24 points, while recent Huskie graduates...

NBA All-Star Weekend was a pure indication of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of professional basketball. The weekend kicked off with the Rookie vs. Sophomore game featuring Wally Szczerbiak's flame-throwing act of 11-of-13 shooting from the field, and...

When the NIU men's basketball team faces off against Ball State on Saturday at 7:05 p.m., current team members will be under the watchful eyes of past Huskie players. Celebrating the men's basketball 100th anniversary, the most prestigious Huskie alumni...

Men's basketball coach Andy Greer hoped the Huskies would play harder Saturday against Toledo. And though the Huskies extended their losing streak to six after falling to the Rockets 87-63, Greer noticed a difference. "We talked about the game, about...

Interim men's basketball coach Andy Greer thinks this weekend's road trip might do the Huskies good. The action starts Saturday when the Huskies face Toledo, whom they defeated 68-67 this season at Chick Evans Field House when Greg Stempin missed a layup...

The freshman swatted and spiked four Marshall shots in the NIU men's basketball team's 94-66 loss. And he managed his swinging success while guarding the Herd's go-to guy. Smallwood was given the toughest defensive assignment of his season by being asked...

Marshall coach Greg White knows exactly how Andy Greer is feeling. After the NIU men's basketball team's 94-66 loss to the Thundering Herd Wednesday, the Huskie coach said he couldn't be more disappointed in the way the Huskies (4-16 overall, 3-8 Mid-American...