Being the No. 1 team in the nation for 14 consecutive weeks has its effects, including a buzz of media frenzy that has shocked the Midwest. But in the case of Illinois, it also has its causes, which are often a bit more subtle. NIU has its ties with the...

In just a mere whisper, the NIU men’s basketball season came and passed just as quietly. Unless you were actually in attendance at the games, you probably didn’t even notice that it happened. Who could blame them? For the most part, the season was...

DeKALB - The 2004-05 NIU men’s basketball season died Monday, March 8, 2005 at the Alumni Arena in Buffalo, New York. It began Monday, Nov. 9, with a 101-51 exhibition victory over the Illinois Institute of Technology and finished with an expected 73-66...

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...

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...

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....

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...