Everything about last week's Mid-Continent Conference Tournament was too quick for the NIU men's basketball team. Too quick, as in too quick of an opponent in the opening game against 3rd-seed Illinois-Chicago and, as a result, too quick of an exit. The...

The NIU men's basketball team is, potentially, three games away from an NCAA bid. Standing in the way are seven familiar foes. As NIU prepares for the Mid-Continent Tournament at Cleveland this weekend—with its accompanying automatic NCAA bid for the...

NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel and his staff have gone 4-for-4 as far as instate recruiting is concerned. Hammel signed four players from the state of Illinois in the November early signing period, and the quartet made various All-State honor...

They've been backups, starters, goats, heroes, ice cold, sizzling hot, champions, also-rans, losers and winners. But above all, they've been Huskies. The they is Mike Hidden and Brian Molis, the two seniors who will be honored at Saturday's final regular-season...

All the wins, all the losses, all the proverbial blood, sweat and tears that the Mid-Continent Conference teams have gone through this season are meaningless starting March 8. That's when the Mid-Con Tournament begins in Cleveland. A loss means automatic...

Did fatigue, or simply lack of depth, lead to foul trouble and spell the difference between two losses and two wins recently for the NIU men's basketball team? The Huskies have dropped three in a row with Saturday's 65-61 loss against Eastern Illinois...

The NIU men's basketball team proved to be as tenacious as a pack of bill collectors against Wright State last night. The Huskies overcame serious foul trouble and an emotional Raiders squad on Senior Recognition night to almost pull off the upset. But...

Learning in life makes one better and stronger for the next challenge. With that in mind, the NIU women's basketball team will face Northwestern tonight (7 p.m.) at Chick Evans Field House with another ounce of experience tightly stored away. After being...

Freshman Marlin Simms has been waiting for his chance to do something big this season, and Saturday night it finally came. As the NIU men's basketball team saw its game against Eastern Illinois slowly start to slip away, Simms stepped up and hit two big...

It seemed that everything was going right for a dramatic come-from-behind win for the NIU men's basketball team Saturday—until the final seconds. With 4.3 seconds showing on the Chick Evans Field House scoreboard, Eastern Illinois' Curtis Leib scored...

The NIU men's basketball team and the Valparaiso Crusaders played to a standstill for most of Saturday's game. But in the end, the difference turned out to be the Huskies' Brian Molis. The 6-4 senior scored a career-high 31 points, including 6-of-6 shooting...

Former NIU men's basketball head coach Jim Molinari has been interviewed by FBI agents about his relationship—during the time he was a DePaul assistant coach—with a Chicago banking official, currently in jail for bank fraud. Molinari acknowledged...