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...
Andrew Singer: In the span of three and a half months, NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher has made two major hires. In the weekend before the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Compher hired Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Doeren as the NIU football team's...
Coming up golden in the field Cora Caulfield and nine other Huskies won events at the Viking Olympics hosted by Augustana College over the weekend. Caulfield broke her own school record in the discuss with a throw of 162-11. The throw was over 30 feet...
Mark Montgomery spoke for the first time as the men's basketball head coach at NIU in a virtual press conference on Thursday afternoon. An assistant to Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo since 2001, Montgomery comes to NIU for his first head coaching...
NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher confirmed on Wednesday evening that Michigan State assistant coach Mark Montgomery has been hired as the head men's basketball coach. Montgomery has been at Michigan State with head coach Tom Izzo since the 2001-2002...
Andrew Singer: When NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher fired NIU men's basketball head coach RicardoPatton, he gave the university a chance to start fresh with a new coach. With any luck, the new coach won't be paid $300,000 annually to guide the Huskies...
Ricardo Patton received his walking papers from NIU on Wednesday, four seasons and 83 losses after being hired as the men's head basketball coach. NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher confirmed through niuhuskies.com that Patton will not return next season....
