What's the old saying about not counting your chickens before they're hatched? For the answer, ask anyone who attended Saturday's NIU men's basketball game. With a 35-20 lead at halftime, the Huskies were apparently headed for a relatively easy win against...

What was supposed to be the NIU men's basketball team's rebuilding year is turning into a solid foundation for the future. After another impressive win for the shorthanded Huskies Wednesday night at Loyola (62-56), NIU stands at 7-11, 4-4 going into Saturday's...

The atrocities of the Packers notwithstanding, there is joy in the Green Bay sports world. Last season, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball team, led by current senior/All-America candidate Tony Bennett, capped off a 20-win regular...

For 40 minutes Wednesday night, the NIU men's basketball team played like a squad with a full deck. Down to only eight players before the opening tip, the Huskies (7-11) dug deep and played inspired basketball in a 62-56 upset victory over Loyola-Chicago...

With the NIU men's basketball team down to nine players, three of them walk-ons, any victory is bound to be a team effort. And that was certainly the case last night in Charleston as the depleted Huskies stunned Eastern Illinois 76-67 in a Mid-Continent...

The NIU men's basketball team had some big shoes to fill with the absence of leading scorer Brian Molis Saturday at Western Illinois. Seven-one sophomore center Steve Oldendorf stepped in with a career performance. But it wasn't enough as the Mid-Continent...

The Huskies men and women's basketball teams are getting an extra boost this year from a growing group of fans known as the "Dog Pound." They are easily recognized as the group of fans dressed in red T-shirts behind the opponent's backboard, razzing refs...

Despite the fact that the NIU men's basketball team was facing two of the better Mid-Continent Conference teams this weekend and earned a split, head Huskies coach Brian Hammel isn't satisfied. "I'm greedy, I want to win them all," Hammel said. "(The...

Spectators at this weekend's men's basketball games saw examples of torrid and ice-cold shooting, both turned in by the Huskies. In Monday night's 84-70 loss to Wright State, NIU shot a bone-chilling 17 percent in the first half. Just 48 hours earlier,...

Senior Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth has designed a committee to define the use of $10,000 for an athletic training fund referred to as "nutritional supplements." At the December meeting of the Athletic Board yesterday, all of an NCAA broad-based...

Early in Monday night's game with NIU, Akron's women's basketball team played much unlike the 2-13 team that it is. Shooting lights out, Akron maintained an eight-point lead with 13 minutes left in the first half. Then, Akron wilted and the Huskies took...