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...
More than four months after being hired, the Northern Star caught up with first-year head coach Dave Doeren of the NIU football team Wednesday morning. The former Wisconsin defensive coordinator filled the vacancy left by Jerry Kill, who accepted an offer...
DeKALB | Twin brothers Keith and Kevin Gray of Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy announced their commitment to the NIU men's basketball team on Monday afternoon. The 6'7" forwards are first-year head coach Mark Montgomery's first commitments....
Two weeks into his new job as the head men's basketball coach at NIU, Mark Montgomery took some time out Wednesday afternoon to discuss the whirlwind of events that have taken place in the past few days. Northern Star: Take us through the interview process,...
Todd Townsend will be retained as a member of NIU men's basketball coach Mark Montgomery's staff, according to a press release. The Marquette alumnus spent the previous two seasons with the Huskies as an assistant coach under former head coach Ricardo...
NIU head men’s basketball coach Mark Montgomery announced on Tuesday evening that Dayton assistant coach Jon Borovich will be on his staff of coaches for the 2011-2012 season. Borovich spent the last four seasons with Dayton, helping lead the Flyers...
DeKALB |During NIU volleyball’s Salvani Spring Play Date on March 26 at the Campus Recreation Center, I observed a type of camaraderie for the first time while at Northern: alumni were trash talking the current Huskies. It was not so much the trash...
