Sometimes looks can be deceiving. The NIU men's basketball team pulled off a 73-67 victory against Ball State, but the win was no cake walk. NIU (12-7 overall, 7-4 MAC) started the game with a 7-0 run in which junior center James Hughes scored 5 points....

Ball State forward Julien Mills will be the skipper of the ship and lead a team comprised of 10 first-season players against a veteran NIU men's basketball team. The Huskies (11-7 overall, 6-4 MAC) will play the Cardinals (7-10, 3-6) for the first time...

The NIU men's basketball team will participate in the fourth-annual ESPN Bracket Buster Feb. 18. Of the 18 conferences participating in the event, the MAC will be sending the most schools with all of its 12 teams to the event. NIU will play its game on...

Coming off a ‘gut-wrenching' loss to Toledo Tuesday, NIU coach Rob Judson was interested to see how his team would respond. Two straight wins on the road and Judson had his answer: The NIU men's basketball team is not going to go away. The Huskies used...

The score may not have looked pretty, but no matter what way Central Michigan fans tried to look at it, the scoreboard still read 49-43 — Huskies win. The game marked the first time since Jan. 22, 1991, that NIU won a game scoring under 50 points. "The...

The NIU men's basketball team will hit the road to Central Michigan and try to end a two-game slide. Having dropped their last two decisions in DeKalb, the Huskies take the court at 6 p.m. in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. to try to right the ship against last place...

Twice the ball left Jonathan Amos’ hands and twice it touched nothing but nylon. With 3.9 seconds left NIU (9-7 overall, 4-4 MAC) held a 66-65 lead with Toledo inbounding the ball from underneath the Huskies’ basket. But before the Rockets even got...

Saturday’s game against Kent State marked the 2,000th game in NIU’s 101 seasons of men’s basketball. Although the team lost the game, it still holds an overall winning record of 1,024-976 in the history of the program. WHERE LEGENDS ARE BORN The...

NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson doesn’t put much stock in what happened last time. Earlier this season, the Huskies jumped out to an early 22 point lead over Toledo before hanging on for a 73-69 victory. Of course, that was last time. And if...

Down 18 points early in the second half, the NIU men’s basketball team chiseled the deficit down to five points. But with 7:30 left, that’s as close as Kent State’s Jay Youngblood would allow it to get. The senior and leading scorer for Kent State...

It’s no accident the NIU men’s basketball team has just one player averaging at least 10 points per game. In fact, it’s just the way Huskies’ coach Rob Judson likes it. "This group is not going to have a guy who scores 25 points every game," Judson...

The men’s basketball team will be the last line of defense to save the fall of the MAC West against the blitzkrieg that is Kent State at 1:05 p.m. Saturday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies (9-5 overall, 4-2 MAC) are the only MAC West team that...