DeKALB | Despite replacing three seniors with seven new recruits in the off-season, the MAC preseason voters predict that the NIU men's basketball team will finish second in the MAC West division. The Huskies are coming of a 17-11 record last year with...

DeKALB | Free cash, food, T-shirts and money for school books. What more could a college student ask for? At 7 p.m. Friday on Victor E. Court, Huskie Hoopla will mark the start for the NIU men's and women's basketball teams this season. The first 100...

DeKALB | For three games in a row, the NIU men's soccer team has held its opponents scoreless. A 5-0 dismantling of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Sunday at Huskie Soccer Field gives NIU a 2-0-1 record over that span. Since taking over...

It took just one day for the NIU men's golf team to make improvements. Day one of the Wolverine Intercollegiate in Michigan this weekend was not pretty for the Huskies, as they finished the day in 10th place with a score of 174. However, day two was much...

NIU athletics finds itself in an interesting time — one where history may be divided between before and after. On the outside, the program looks to be a growing beacon of success. Running back Garrett Wolfe is making national headlines, the walls of...

DeKALB | There exists an issue embedded in NIU's game against Buffalo Saturday that's bigger than the game. It's a problem that stems from the foundations of this country and has continued to receive heightened awareness. That issue is equal opportunity....

DeKALB | He hasn't been the flashiest or the highest scorer, but when it comes down to crunch time, defender and midfielder Chris Rufa has been the go-to guy for the men's soccer team. The junior is second in the MAC in assists per game at 0.50, but more...

NIU coach Steve Simmons and the men's soccer team will take to the field at 2 p.m. Wednesday for their annual intra-squad scrimmage. "It will be a measuring tool to see what [the players] have done this summer and where certain combinations fit," Simmons...

Before the start of the fall semester, the NIU men's soccer team will have already been hard at work on the playing field. The Huskies will play an intrasquad scrimmage Aug. 9 before heading out to play an exhibition game at DePaul Aug. 15. The annual...

NIU Athletic Director Jim Phillips has ended his two-month search for a replacement of Sports Information Director Mike Korcek. Donna Turner of Tulane was announced as the Huskies new associate athletics director for communications Wednesday. "We are...

The NIU men's basketball team did some addition and subtraction last week. On the same day the Huskies announced their signing of two new recruits, they also announced that forward Craig Reichel will not return to the Huskies next season. Reichel will...

Only one member of the NIU men's basketball team, Bryson McKenzie, remembers the locker rooms at Chick Evans Field House. McKenzie, who began his basketball career with NIU in 2001, was denied a sixth year of eligibility Wednesday. "We were hopeful that...