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Busting brackets on ESPNU

By James Nokes | February 16, 2007

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...

Inside the hectic life of Kaplan

By Ben Gross | February 14, 2007

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...

Familiar territory

By James Nokes | February 14, 2007

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...

The burning questions

By Andrew Hansen | February 13, 2007

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...

After low, two in a row

By Andrew Hansen | February 12, 2007

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....

A winning streak?

By James Nokes | February 9, 2007

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...

McKinney nets 1000th point in win over Falcons

By James Nokes | February 8, 2007

DeKALB | The light shining in the darkness for the NIU men's basketball team wasn't just posting a rare win on Wednesday against Bowling Green. Senior guard Mike McKinney hit a free throw with 5:32 left in the game to become the 26th Huskie to score 1,000...

A win 31 days in the making

By Andrew Hansen | February 8, 2007

DeKALB | At the end of Wednesday night's men's basketball game in DeKalb, one team sat heads in hands, others covered in towels. Coaches: shell-shocked. The other, huddled together waiting for the buzzer to blow to celebrate victory. And for the first...

Highlighting the MAC’s finest five

By Andrew Hansen | February 6, 2007

Shake off that Super Bowl hangover and, if you're a Bears fan, stop drowning your sorrows. Remember, there's still MAC men's basketball taking place. Akron (17-4, 8-1) stays atop the MAC East with the best record in the conference, with Kent State (14-8,...

Losing streak continues

By James Nokes | February 5, 2007

For the Eastern Michigan women’s basketball team, Saturday’s 63-56 win over host NIU marked a six-game winning streak, its longest since the 1979-’80 season, while the loss was the fifth in a row for the women Huskies.

“I feel like we dodged a bullet,” EMU coach Suzy Merchant said. “That’s probably the worst we’ve played all season.”

The five-game skid is the longest for the Huskies (9-14 overall, 4-8 MAC) in three years.

Marion Crandall, EMU’s lone senior, led the way for the Eagles (16-6, 9-3), hitting six three-pointers en route to a game-high 20 points. Crandall was 6-of-9 from behind the arc, including three during a late 11-5 Eagles run to open up a one-point game.

“Crandall was able to nail two huge threes in the second half, and that hurt,” NIU coach Carol Hammerle said. “A lot of times, I thought we were right there to contest the shot and she still made them. So there’s not much else you can do about that, except credit her.”

After trailing 22-8 midway through the first half, the Huskies rallied in the second half, scoring the first 10 points to take a one-point lead, their first lead since leading 4-2. NIU led by one point as late as 8:22 in the second half, but the Eagles outscored the Huskies 21-13 the rest of the way.

“We’re just not playing as well,” said NIU forward Jennifer Youngblood about the team’s five-game losing streak. “We’re turning the ball over. We’re just doing the little things wrong.”

Youngblood finished with a team-high 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Sophomore Joi Scott also had a double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. Lindsay Secrest was 3-of-6 from three-point range and finished with 11 points for NIU.

NIU freshman Stephanie Raymond finished with six points and had a career-high eight assists and a team-high three steals.

The win moved EMU into a first-place tie with Western Michigan, which lost 9-3 to Miami-Ohio on Sunday in the MAC West Division. NIU remained sixth in the conference.

Super Bowl predictions

February 2, 2007

Ben Gross NIU women's basketball reporter Prediction - Bears 30, Colts 27 Reason - The Colts have shown an improved defense, but the Bears defense will limit Manning. Grossman will do enough to keep the Bears in it and will give Gould the game-winning...

Late lead doesn’t hold

By James Nokes | January 31, 2007

OXFORD, Ohio | A three-point loss begins the mid-way point of the conference schedule for the NIU men's basketball team. The Huskies fell to Miami on Tuesday in Ohio by a score of 62-59. NIU (4-16 Overall, 1-7 MAC) took a second-half six-point lead on...

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