Every time the Huskies pulled within a shot of the lead, the shots just never fell for the NIU men’s basketball team Monday night at Buffalo. With 5:13 remaining, Anthony Maestranzi finally connected. Playing with four fouls, Maestranzi caught a pass...

It’s been over a year since the NIU men’s basketball team has won a MAC road game. For Huskies coach Rob Judson, 6 p.m. today would be as good a time as any to break that streak. For the third straight year, NIU will face Buffalo in the first round...

If Rob Judson was fatigued during the weekly coach's corner show on a Thursday night at Fatty's Pub and Grille, he wasn't letting it show. The fourth-year NIU men’s basketball coach had returned to DeKalb with his team at 2:30 a.m. the previous night....

In any overtime game, coaches look back at possessions their team didn’t convert into points. The winning coach gets to look back at the turnovers and missed shots and breathe a sigh of relief. The losing coach can only sigh. NIU men’s basketball...

INDIANAPOLIS - NIU has six of the more than 400 sports teams at the nation’s Division I level that could lose scholarships next year under the NCAA’s new academic standards, according to a report released Monday. Most of the scholarship losses, which...

After winning its second consecutive game Sunday, the NIU men’s basketball team received more good news when forward Todd Peterson was named the MAC West Player of the Week on Monday. For the week, the junior averaged 15 points and 5.5 rebounds a game...

When you do something more than 100 times a week, you’re bound to get good at it. Every time the NIU men’s basketball team suits up for practice, they know at some point they will break off and shoot free throws. Those practice shots are something...

It’s been eight years since the NIU men’s basketball team won six straight games at home. Under coach Brian Hammel, the Huskies team of 1995-1996 rattled off eight straight home wins en route to a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Currently, the home...

Shatone Powers couldn’t make it to his intramural game Wednesday at the Campus Recreation Center. The Huskies’ wide receiver had a more important game with the NIU men’s basketball team against Bowling Green, the MAC West’s top team. Although...

Inside the NIU Convocation Center, 2,502 fans showed what an NIU men’s basketball game could be. "Let’s go Huskies" repeatedly echoed off the walls. Standing ovations, whistles, and cheers were at times so loud it became hard to hear the person next...

There is no site more welcome for the NIU men’s basketball team than the Convocation Center. After dropping 10 in a row on the road, NIU gets a chance to wind down its season at a place where it has won four in a row - DeKalb. NIU will play its final...

It has been three years since the Convocation Center opened its doors on Nov. 23, 2002. That night saw the DePaul men’s basketball team christening the new arena with a 63-48 victory over NIU. Just imagine how that game would have felt if the University...