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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...

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...

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...

Nice doesn’t always get the job finished

By Ben Gross | January 30, 2007

Here's a life lesson to learn: Life isn't fair, and you don't always get what you want. So the next time you don't get an A on your paper, stop whining. Instead, do something about it. Spend more time researching, develop your thesis, and actually proofread...

Running on empty

By Andrew Hansen | January 29, 2007

DeKALB | NIU men's basketball head coach Rob Judson labeled Saturday's game against Kent State correctly when he called it "a tale of two halves." The Huskies kept the first half close with four points being the largest margin held by either team. NIU...

NIU greats return for men’s alumni game

By Justin Weaver | January 29, 2007

DeKALB | Their graduations may be long past, but some of NIU's all-time greats returned to school this past weekend. In the seventh annual NIU men's alumni basketball game Saturday at the Convocation Center, the Black team edged the Cardinal team 97-94....

Men’s alumni game shows off best of past

By Justin Weaver | January 26, 2007

DeKALB | Some of NIU's past best and brightest are suiting up again. Saturday at the Convocation Center, NIU men's basketball alumni from the past several decades will take the floor 11 a.m. for the seventh annual alumni game. The game is open to anyone...

Just in a ‘tough stretch’

By Andrew Hansen | January 26, 2007

DeKALB | NIU men's basketball coach Rob Judson knows exactly where his team is at this point of the season. "This is a tough stretch," Judson said of his team's five straight losses, in the midst of a one-of-15 stretch for the Huskies. "It's very easy...

Huskies try to shake ‘disease’

By James Nokes | January 24, 2007

DeKALB | Remember the little old psychiatrist from the movie "The Natural?" Hired to cure the fictional Knights from a prolonged losing skid, the hunchbacked gray haired man in a fedora would tersely lecture Roy Hobbs and Co. that "losing is a disease."...

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