Three rostered players are anxiously awaiting Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell's decision as to who will be NIU's third men's basketball coach in five years. After a 12-member screening committee narrows a list of applicants and recommends the finalists,...

CHICAGO—The scoreboard told the story following the championship game of the women's basketball North Star Conference Tournament at DePaul University's Alumni Hall on March 11. But there were other numbers to look at besides the 76-61 mark that verified...

Illinois assistant men's basketball coach and former NIU assistant coach, Mark Coomes, is the first confirmed applicant for the vacant head coaching job at NIU. "I have applied," said Coomes, talking by phone Wednesday from Champaign. "I have an interest...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...