Sometimes, a change of scenery is all it takes to reverse bad fortunes. Perhaps a glimpse of the rocky mountains will help NIU men's basketball turn things around. The Huskies (0-4) are winless after dropping their fourth loss in a row at home to Eastern...
Turnovers and bad shooting will almost always result in a loss.Both statistics plagued the NIU men's basketball team Thursday night against the Iowa Hawkeyes, as the Huskies lost by 33 points in an 88-55 blowout on the road.The Huskies started the game...
Another game, another quality Big Ten opponent.Tonight, NIU men's basketball (0-2) will continue its trend of playing Big Ten teams when it travels to Iowa City to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes.Both players and coaches agree the Huskies have to play the best...
A halfcourt buzzer-beater would not be in the cards for NIU men's basketball last night at the end of regulation. The Huskies (0-2) dropped their season opener as well as Mark Montgomery's coaching debut to Milwaukee, 59-57 at the Convocation Center.With...
Although she’s losing two of her best players and bringing in four new players, Kathi Bennett, NIU women’s basketball head coach, believes the team can contend for a MAC championship.“I look at where we’re at right now: we have six new players,...
For the second time this season, NIU quarterback Chandler Harnish was named MAC West Player of the Week, according to a press release.The Huskies’ signal caller’s performance helped guide his team to a 51-22 victory over Western Michigan Saturday.The...
DeKALB | Former NIU men's basketball guard Xavier Silas will have to wait to have his shot to become an NBA player due to an NBA lockout. But he will get his chance, as he received an official invite to attend the Philadelphia 76ers veterans' camp. Silas...
Xavier Silas could be a lot higher on this list, but the NBA hopeful is slotted at No. 5 for his role on a nine-win team that lost its head coach in the immediate aftermath of an atrocious season.Early on in the NIU men's basketball 2010-11 season, Silas...
Graduating next month is a bummer for so many reasons. One: There won't be any more days of waking up at noon and stumbling to class. Two: The real world will be front and center in my face. The biggest reason why I don't want to graduate, though, is...
DeKALB | Six-foot-six-inch swingman Dre Henley of De La Salle Institute committed to the NIU men's basketball team over the weekend, according to multiple reports. Considered by many to be one of the top unsigned players in Illinois, Henley reportedly...
When this column was originally written several weeks ago, it looked better suited for the trash than the paper. I felt that way until early last week when two former University of San Diego men's basketball players and one former assistant coach were...
Recently resigned Saginaw boy's basketball coach Lou Dawkins contacted the Northern Star on Wednesday evening to inform the public that he had accepted an offer to become an assistant on the NIU men's basketball team. Dawkins also revealed that Saginaw...
