The Northern Illinois Huskies men's basketball team took a chair and a whip to another group of ferocious felines Saturday night, beating the Chicago State Cougars 63-55 behind ringmaster Donald Whiteside's 16 points. The Huskies improved their 1989-90...

"Bring the record home" branched into "Turn the students away" Thursday night at Chick Evans Field House when more than 1,000 NIU students were unable to get into the sold-out game. In an attempt to break the Illinois women's collegiate basketball attendance...

It's official. All the talk about the men's basketball teams' road woes can end. "You can stop talking about it now," said head-Huskie Jim Molinari. The questions about why the Huskies couldn't win on the road were raised as NIU struggled to an 0-6 road...

Ideally, college sports may not be best exemplified by the exploits of the student-giants running around on the gridiron and hardwood courts. The dedication and balance between academics and athletics is often best illustrated by the participants in the...

Throughout history, women's collegiate basketball has never received much publicity. National attention has always been focused on the mens' teams, while the women sat in the shadow of fame with little recognition. That dominant belief is starting to...

Huskies might not be native to the American Southwest, but there will be over a dozen running through Beaumont, Texas tonight. NIU's mens' basketball team (11-9) hits the road tonight at 7:30 to take on the Lamar Cardinals. Lamar has struggled through...

If first-year men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher gets his way, the Huskies will be a national power in five years. Fresh out of the pro circuit, Merzbacher was hired as the men's coach in the summer of 1989. Although he has no previous coaching experience,...

On Feb. 11, 1979, a sporting event in Chick Evans Field House held the attention of more than 5000 human beings. Not until Kenny Battle bounced off backboards from 1984-86 for the NIU basketball team would so many people focus on one individual and his...

A legitimate shot to make the NCAA playoffs for the NIU men's basketball team is just a season away. When the Huskies begin competition in the AMCU (Association of Mid-Continent Universities) next year, one of the most important benefits for NIU's program...

Saturday's women's basketball game at Chick Evans Field House was a coach's dream—a NIU coach's dream, that is. The Huskies, behind 1,526 enthusiastic fans, made their brief stop at home a memorable one as NIU (17-3, 6-0) remained the only undefeated...

Sometimes Huskie men's basketball coach Jim Molinari feels so strongly about something that the words and the emotion run into each other and stumble out. He says he overreacts to both victories and defeats because he wants what's best for the players...

The avalanche of snow that hit DeKalb Thursday did something the Huskies' men's basketball team was hoping to do by itself—put out the Flames. The Flames, as in the 11-6 Illinois-Chicago Flames, were scheduled to play NIU last night only to be snowbound...