DeKALB | With his mother and daughter watching, James Hughes made Senior Day perfect. Well, almost. Hughes was 10-for-10 from the field until 1:53 was left in the game, when he missed on his last jumper to finish the game 10-for-11 from the field. Hughes...

DeKALB | The story for nearly all NIU men's basketball games sound the exactly same. Good first half, bad second half. Such was the story for Thursday's 68-54 loss at Western Michigan. In the first half, the Huskies (6-22 overall, 3-12 MAC) came out like...

DeKALB | There were fast breaks, cherry pickers and plenty of turnovers. No, it wasn't the NIU men's basketball team in action. It was the intramural championships held at the Campus Recreation Center Monday night. After trailing 12-6 early in the first...

DeKALB | The weather in DeKalb mirrored the NIU men's basketball team's 71-64 loss against Central Michigan at Mount Pleasant, Mich. At times, it looked manageable. At other times, a sheer white-out where nothing could be done. With seven minutes left...

DeKALB | Just like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the NIU men's basketball team went down with its guns blazing. The dynamic duo for NIU against Toledo was James Hughes and point guard Cody Yelder. An active Hughes scored a game-high 25 points, and...

DeKALB | The NIU men's basketball team saved the best for last. With four games remaining in the regular season, the Huskies host MAC West-leading Toledo tonight at 7 p.m. at the Convocation Center. The Rockets have been on a tear through the conference....

DeKALB | You can thank ESPN for the intriguing non-conference men's basketball match-up this weekend. NIU will play host to University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in a 2 p.m. game Saturday at the Convocation Center. Nicknamed the "BracketBuster," through the...

DeKALB | Dave Kaplan's schedule is busy, hectic, frantic and exciting, but none of these words paint a complete picture of his life. A former NIU men's assistant basketball coach, Kaplan now works for Comcast, WGN-Radio and ESPN as a color analyst. Tonight...

DeKALB | If only an NCAA basketball game were 41 minutes. Instead, it is two 20-minute halves, and on Wednesday at the Convocation Center the NIU men's basketball team just ran out of time. The Huskies lost 57-55 to Ball State in a game where defensive...

DeKALB | Questions are always raised when a team faces another for the second time in less than a month. Will there be a similar result? Have the teams improved? Have they gotten worse? That's exactly the situation NIU men's basketball will face when...

DeKALB | In a season full of losses, the NIU men's basketball team knows how to value a win. With an 81-74 win over Ohio, the Huskies find themselves in a winning streak for the second time this year. The win also snapped Ohio's 14-game home-win streak....

Ernie Banks loved the game of baseball so much his catch phrase became "let's play two." If it were up to Mr. Cub, he'd play a double-header everyday. If it is up to NIU men's basketball coach Rob Judson, the Huskies will make it two wins in a row when...