The NIU men's basketball team must be looking forward to its week off. The Huskies finished fourth in the Texas-El Paso MetroMobile Tournament after losing to UTEP 67-55 Friday and falling to Wisconsin-Green Bay in third place game Saturday. Now the 1-3...

Perhaps warmer weather can help the NIU men's basketball team when they take on host Texas-El Paso Friday at 10 p.m. in the first round of the Metromobile Tournament. The visiting Huskies (1-1) will be looking for their first road win following Tuesday's...

The North Star Conference will survive despite the loss of Notre Dame and Dayton next year. That is the consensus of NIU Women's Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones, volleyball coach Herb Summers and women's basketball coach Jane Albright. While all...

MADISON, Wis.—The NIU men's basketball team has to learn how to win. The Huskies fell 87-77 to Wisconsin Tuesday night in the Dane County Coliseum before 4,775 fans. NIU came back from a 14-point deficit to pull within 72-69 with 5:42 remaining, but...

The NIU men's basketball team and the Wisconsin Badgers are in the odd position of trying to rebound from opening victories. Both teams enter tonight's 7:05 p.m. contest at the Dane County Coliseum with 1-0 records after victories in which they felt they...

Although NIU men's basketball player John Culbertson's collegiate coaches said they are unaware of his active warrant, two former assistants said they had problems with him during their two years together. Culbertson is the subject of a warrant in connection...

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...

NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough enters his second year at the helm after compiling a 9-19 record in his rookie season. Osborough, 42, was hired April 24, 1986, to run the Huskies after being a Tulsa assistant. Before that, he served as a color...

"Awesome" is probably the wrong word to describe the NIU men's basketball schedule, but there are a few gems hidden among the 24 Huskie opponents. Though hardly household names, Texas-El Paso and Howard both made it to the NCAA Tournament last season....

Second-year coach Jim Rosborough has a different team with a different look this season, but now all he wants is different results. The NIU men's basketball team struggled through last season with on- and off-court problems, finishing with a weak 9-19...

The NIU men's basketball team solidified the future of its backcourt when it announced the signing of guard Marcus Coty, head coach Jim Rosborough said. Coty, a 6-foot-1-inch, 165-pound senior from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received...

Scheduling philosophies, the budget and the admissions for gymnastic events were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the monthly board meeting. At the request of the new scheduling subcommittee, Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones submitted scheduling...