DAYTON, Ohio—In a season that lasted longer than anyone expected, NIU ran out of time. The Huskies, playing in a first-round NCAA Championship game against St. John's Friday, overcame their first-half jitters and a 25-point Redmen lead to stage a fierce...

One more win, that's all it's going to take. Just one more win and the NIU men's basketball team will achieve something never before accomplished—an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies can achieve this feat by winning the championship...

March brings with it the beginning of college basketball's postseason tournaments. Both NIU's men's and women's squads are preparing to partake in its respective conference tourneys. The men's tournament at Wisconsin-Green Bay begins first-round play...

As the leaves began to change colors and the air began to chill last fall, five men, each one a leader in their own unique way, prepared for their last campaign together. For NIU's head coach Jim Molinari, these five men would bring about a season of...

One of the lures that encouraged the NIU men's basketball team to join a conference was the attraction of a legitimate shot at an NCAA Tournament bid. Evidence that it wasn't a false hope is surfacing this season. Going into the Mid-Continent Conference...

To describe the kind of season the NIU men's basketball team has had requires a dictionary, or at least a good vocabulary. Words like impressive, unexpected and brilliant come to mind. Head coach Jim Molinari has picked out his own adjective. "Special,"...

Women's college basketball rivalries just don't get any bigger than the one taking place at Chick Evans Field House Thursday night. At 6:30 p.m., the NIU women's basketball team (23-5, 12-0) squares off with the DePaul Blue Demons (14-11, 9-3) for their...

Several NIU women's sports programs will find themselves in a new home for the 1992-93 season. Although a formal announcement isn't expected until Friday, NIU's Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell confirmed NIU's decision during a telephone call Thursday...

If basketball were more like boxing, Saturday's NIU men's basketball game might have a name like "the battle by the bay," or "the Mid-Con clash II." But if any game this season doesn't need any extra hype, it's Saturday's 7:30 p.m. road match against...

NIU's graduation rate for its student-athletes, according to its latest report, is the same as NIU's general student body, 48.3 percent. NIU must file an academic report to the NCAA each year which charts the graduation rates over a five-year period for...

"There is no ‘I' in the word, team." This is the first commandment on an NIU men's basketball team that is enjoying a banner 20-win season due to its team play. Nowhere is this team play exhibited better than on defense, where the Huskies currently...

When the NIU men's basketball team defeated DePaul on the night of January 15, they did so in front of 6,261 screaming Huskies fans. The crowd was the biggest to ever attend a basketball game at Chick Evans Field House. The game was also highlighted by...