The dam has burst. Two members of the NIU men's basketball team have broken two weeks of silence about the firing of their coach, Jim Rosborough. In an exclusive interview with The Northern Star on Thursday, the players, who wish to remain anonymous for...

In the hopes of naming a new men's basketball coach by May 22, the NIU Athletic Department is implementing a national search to fill the position. Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth said Monday a 12-member search committee is in the process of being...

Curt Norton is no rebel, but when men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough was fired, Norton felt compelled to take action. Frustrated by Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell's decision to prematurely end a four-year university commitment to Rosborough, Norton...

Antwon Harmon will soon get the chance to take in some of what he's been dishing out. Come early March, when the NIU's men's basketball team completes its schedule, the 6-8 Huskie center will coach basketball at the Sycamore YMCA. "I'm not looking forward...

There's no need to remind NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright about the last two games. The fifth-year Huskie boss is well aware of her team's recent losses to DePaul and Southern Illinois, and knows that tonight's 7:00 road matchup against Valparaiso...

Northern Illinois University is the best kept secret in the Midwest. If that sounds familiar it's probably because every NIU coach and athletic department administrator has said that at one time or another. Now we know why. The Huskies are getting virtually...

A little pressure never hurt anyone. But it sure can make a difference in a basketball game. Akron University threw a full-court press at the NIU men's basketball team in chick Evans Field House Monday night that shredded the Huskies' offense and unfastened...

It appears the NIU men's basketball program will play an additional, different type of game for at least another year—a waiting game. Coach Jim Rosborough and Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell have made it known that NIU is searching for a men's basketball...

When NIU basketball coach Jim Rosborough left Saturday's pre-game meal in Davidson, N.C., he set his hotel room key on the table and suggested the squad have a team meeting without him and to come get him when they were through. "Everybody gave their...

When the NIU men's basketball team plays Davidson College tomorrow night at Johnston Gym in Davidson, N.C., it will be a battle between two teams that have recently turned independent. NIU achieved independent status in 1986 after 11 seasons in the Mid-American...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - With tonight's 94-71 loss to Northern Iowa at the Uni-Dome, the NIU men's basketball team holds a 1-5 record against Association of Mid-Continent Universities schools. An 80-79 last-second victory over Eastern Illinois at Chick Evans...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - For almost every error committed by the NIU men's basketball team against Northern Iowa, the Panthers would find two ways to correct the mistake. And the final correction usually ended with a score. Bad passes, poor shot selection...