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Huskies fall at Loyola

By Steve Brown | November 22, 2004

A youthful NIU basketball team saw its early lead slowly disappear in a 63-56 loss Saturday at Loyola’s Gentile Center. The Huskies broke out to a 21-8 lead in their first regular-season game but allowed Loyola an 11-1 scoring run late in the first...

Men’s hoops begin regular season

By Steve Brown | November 19, 2004

The Gentile Center is a familiar place for NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson. The Huskies last played there in 2001, when Judson was looking for a win in his first game as a head coach. Loyola handed NIU a 75-63 loss, forcing Judson to wait for...

Hoops team working with 10-man squad

By Steve Brown | November 18, 2004

With three injuries and one ineligible player on the NIU men’s basketball team, NIU coach Rob Judson expects to work with a 10-man roster for most of the year. Sophomore Ryan Paradise is still recovering from off-season wrist surgeries on his left hand....

Defense the key to NIU’s early success

By Sean Ostruszka | November 15, 2004

With its season opener approaching, it has been the defense that has helped the NIU men’s basketball team begin 2-0. In their first exhibition game against the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Huskies defense had 15 steals and forced 25 turnovers....

Men’s hoops completes preseason 2-0

By Steve Brown | November 15, 2004

After scoring 101 points in its first exhibition game, the NIU men’s basketball team continued its scoring onslaught Saturday, topping Laval University of Quebec 94-55 at the Convocation Center before a crowd of 1,894. In their second and last exhibition...

Huskies to get final test

By Steve Brown | November 12, 2004

After breezing by its first opponent of the year, Illinois Institute of Technology, by 50 points Monday, the NIU men’s basketball team will get a real test Saturday, NIU coach Rob Judson said. The Huskies play Laval University of Quebec, one of the...

Men’s hoops roll in exhibition game

By Steve Brown | November 9, 2004

If there were any opening night jitters for the NIU men’s basketball team, it didn’t show it.

Sophomore center James Hughes paced the Huskies Monday night at the Convocation Center with 15 points as the Huskies dominated the Illinois Institute of Technology 101-51 in their first exhibition game of the season.

“I like the way our team had energy and how we shared the ball,” NIU coach Rob Judson said. “We had really good transition offense and that goes back to the defense.”

The Huskies jumped out to a 25-10 lead after a three-pointer by freshman guard Zach Pancratz, who chipped in 14 points in his first game with the Huskies.

“I just wanted to try and make a difference,” Pancratz said.”I wanted to work with my teammates and do what we do and work within the offense.”

NIU led throughout and were never threatened by the IIT offense that managed only 21 first-half points.

An NAIA Division I school, IIT’s starting center was 6-foot-4 compared to NIU’s starting center, Johnathan Byrd, who is 6-foot-9.

A pair of free throws by Pancratz with four seconds remaining in the first half stretched the Huskies lead to 31 points.

“We’re not going to be a real high-scoring team,” junior point guard Anthony Maestranzi said. “We just want to keep the defense on their heels, and on offense we’re going to spread the points out if we can.”

The second half was much like the first for the Huskies.

A jumper from Byrd, the Huskies’ lone senior, capped a 31-8 run.

Judson said despite the scoring output, he was really focused on the defense his team played.

“We wanted to see defensively how we would be fundamentally,” he said. “We still got a lot of things to work on defensively and there was just too much reaching and grabbing.”

Six players scored double-figures for the Huskies in the game that saw them score at least 100 points for the first time since the 2002-2003 season.

Hughes dunks home answers

By Jarrod Rice | October 27, 2004

Sophomore center James Hughes started almost half of the NIU men’s basketball team’s games last season as a redshirt freshman. In only 15 minutes of action, he averaged 1.77 blocks a game for the 10-20 Huskies. Hughes talked with the Northern Star...

Youthful men’s hoops gearing up

By Sean Ostruszka | October 27, 2004

With only one senior on the NIU men’s basketball team, coach Rob Judson stressed the youth movement at the NIU basketball media day Wednesday at the Convocation Center. NIU, which was 10-20 last year after being eliminated in the first round of the...

Basketball season on horizon

By Frank Rusnak | October 18, 2004

Yes, it’s still football season and most Huskies fans are not readily awaiting the beginning of the basketball season. But a crazy event happened Friday night at the Convocation Center. The NIU men’s basketball team’s lightly publicized Midnight...

Baseball’s fall world series comes to end

By Bob Grant | October 18, 2004

The deciding Game 5 of the NIU Fall World Series was dominated by pitcher Nick Hall in a 2-1 NIU Cardinal victory over NIU Black in 10 innings Thursday afternoon. The win gave the Cardinals a 3-2 victory in the five-game series. Hall pitched all 10 innings,...

Hoops gets commitment from Texas PG

By Marc Marin | October 12, 2004

The newest NIU men’s basketball recruit is not bashful. Quintan Lipkins, a 5-foot-9 point guard from Sharpstown High in Houston, averaged 24.5 points and 9.9 assists a game last season and is confident that success in both scoring and passing will follow...

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