Zach Pancratz is one of seven players returning to the men’s basketball team for the 2005-2006 season. While tonight’s game against DePaul is an intense game for all of the Huskies, the game has special meaning for Pancratz as his dad played for the...

Three years may have never felt so long ago. That was the last time the NIU men’s basketball team ended the season with a winning record. Lead by the trio of a forward and two guards, the Huskies won 10-of-11 at one point in the season and were just...

Ben Rand didn’t take much time to get adjusted to his first start in a Huskie uniform. The sophomore transfer from Iowa kick started NIU’s scoring with the Huskies first four points in NIU’s 102-61 victory over Aurora Friday in front of 2,220 fans...

The NIU men’s basketball team will search for its first win of the season against the Spartans this Saturday at the Convocation Center. The game, starting at 4:05 p.m., won’t be against the well-known Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten, but the...

Sometimes, it’s just not your day. Unfortunately for the NIU men’s basketball team, Saturday was not its day. Opening its season against Missouri State, the Huskies (0-1) hoped to get off to a quick start and put one in the win column. But that’s...

In the second game of last season, the NIU men’s basketball team thought it was headed to overtime against Southwest Missouri State. Having battled back from an eight-point deficit, NIU held the momentum. That was until Deke Thompson ran the length...

All smiles. That’s what the NIU bench was throughout most of Monday’s game. But then again, a 48-point victory will usually do that. For the first time this season, the men’s basketball team got to hit the court and actually play an opponent other...

I remember going to football games during my freshman year with 25,000-plus screaming fans at just about every game. The energy, excitement and noise of those games can’t even be described with words. When football season came to a close I was disappointed...

Rob Judson got a glimpse of how his team will compete last weekend in a scrimmage against Loyola. The NIU men’s basketball head coach will get another look today in the Huskies’ first exhibition of the season against Benedictine University at 7:05...

Don’t tell NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson the Sporting News and Street and Smith’s college basketball previews picked his squad to win the MAC West. "The only place I saw us ranked high was in Field and Stream," Judson said in jest. "As a...

A pair of NIU guards have received preseason MAC All-West Division honors. Mike McKinney and Stephanie Raymond return for the their respective junior seasons with recognition from the MAC News Media Association as top performers in the league. In 2004-05,...

With donations ranging from world-wide corporations to the home-town bar and grill, the NIU Athletics Department partially funds its 496 athletes and 17 athletic programs. Gatorade, Adidas, Pepsi, Allstate, Applebee’s, Castle Bank, Fatty’s, Culver’s...