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...

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...

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...

The NIU women's basketball team simply stole the fun from Wright State in record-breaking fashion Saturday. The Huskies (13-9, 7-2 in the North Star Conference) turned the Raiders in every possible direction while registering a school-record 37 steals...

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...

It's round two this weekend for the Valparaiso Crusaders, the Illinois-Chicago Flames and the NIU men's basketball team. First up for NIU is a rematch against the Crusaders. But the Huskies won't be facing the same Crusaders squad when they square off...

Coming down the homestretch, the NIU men's basketball team is a group of tired Huskies. With good reason. Head coach Brian Hammel's squad has been down to nine bodies, some healthier than others, this semester. The Huskies have managed to build a 9-13,...

Monday's 82-77 win by the NIU men's basketball team over Western Illinois at times resembled open gym night at the YMCA. Between 37 combined turnovers, some unconscious shooting performances and abysmal refereeing, there was an out-of-bounds play that...

Brian Molis made the most of his opportunity to make amends for his poor 1-for-16 shooting performance on Saturday with a 9-for-16 effort Monday night against Western Illinois. Molis led the NIU men's basketball team to an 82-77 win over WIU by pouring...

Head NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel would just as soon forget his 100th career win. "There'll be no calls from the Hall of Fame for (tapes of Monday's game) for their archives," Hammel said. Artistic merits aside, the Huskies triumphed 82-77...