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...

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...

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...

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...

Several NBA scouts, along with 5,497 fans, were in attendance at Saturday's NIU men's basketball game against Wisconsin-Green Bay. The scouts, at least, were not disappointed with what they saw. The Huskie fans who helped swell the largest Chick Evans...

Will the NIU men's basketball team face a "struggling" squad when it meets 17-2 Wisconsin-Green Bay Saturday? According to Green Bay coach Dick Bennett, that's exactly what awaits the Huskies in the 7 p.m. match at Chick Evans Field House. Struggling?...

It's a young rivalry, but the Wisconsin-Green Bay—NIU men's basketball games are as intensely anticipated as the more storied battles between more familiar foes. It started last season when the Huskies under Jim Molinari enjoyed a spectacular 25-6,...

How quickly things change. For example, at the start of the NIU men's basketball season, Steve Oldendorf was expected by many to continue the role of bench warmer. Twenty games into the season, he has become a key member of the Huskies. His emergence...

It seemed like old times at Chick Evans Field House last night. The Huskie's men's basketball team was battling Mid-Continent Conference foe Akron, assistant coach DeWayne Kelly was on the bench and the NIU defense was holding the Zips to their nickname—as...