4,001 people made the life choice to attend an NIU men’s basketball game Friday night.Obviously, the opposing fan base figured into the highest attendance for an NIU basketball game since 2005. The number of Northwestern University alumni in the Chicagoland...
NIU men's basketball team faced a tough test in its season opener Friday night, as the Huskies hosted Northwestern for a rematch of last year’s opener. While the Huskies got to play the Wildcats at home this time, in front of 4,001 fans, the result...
Facing a tough test to start its season, NIU men's basketball suffered a 97-78 at the hands of the Northwestern Wildcats. In front of 4,001 fans, the largest Convocation Center crowd since a 2005 game against Kansas State, the Huskies (0-1 overall) were...
With tonight’s season opener against Northwestern University, the new-look NIU men’s basketball team will try to prove that it can be successful right away. While the Huskies will depend heavily on a platoon of newcomers, seniors like guard Michael...
At 8 p.m., the NIU men's basketball team will finally be able to put its tumultuous offseason in the rear-view mirror when it tips off its regular season against Northwestern. Going up against a Big Ten team poised to make a run at its first NCAA tournament...
Both the NIU women's and men's basketball teams will head into the 2010-11 season with holes left by players no longer with the teams. Kathi Bennett, entering her first year as women's head coach, has to deal with the departure of forward Mauvolyene Adams....
On the strength of 26 points from senior guard Xavier Silas, the NIU men's basketball team rolled Coe College 82-65 in its only exhibition game Saturday. The Kohawks played NIU tight in the first half, sinking six of 12 three pointers and even taking...
Twenty wins in a season is a solid barometer of how well a college basketball program is performing. Twenty wins in two seasons is another story entirely. After back-to-back 10-win seasons and an offseason full of roster upheaval, the NIU basketball team...
With the roster upheaval that the NIU men’s basketball team underwent in the offseason, the lineup has been in flux. But one thing is for sure: senior guard Xavier Silas is going to be a leader for this Huskie team. After being named to the preseason...
Player turnover is a universal challenge to college coaches, but not many teams have undergone a roster upheaval like NIU men’s basketball head coach Ricardo Patton undertook this offseason.After the departure of key players in guards Mike DiNunno and...
Come this spring, there will be one question racing through the minds of college baseball fans everywhere: Why aren’t the bats making that discernible ping sound?With an eye toward player safety and lower scoring, the NCAA has mandated that all teams...
Well, the Mayans had it right. The world, as well as college basketball coaches everywhere, has just received its first sign of confirmation that the world will in fact end in 2012.And this sign came gift-wrapped by the Conference Commissioners Association...
