After being selected as preseason MAC favorites, the NIU men’s basketball team now is below .500 after going 3-6 over Winter Break. NIU’s three wins all came at home. Two were over non-Division I teams and one was against an Ohio team with a 3-10...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! Many of you, like myself, already have a list of items you hope to receive this holiday season. Wish lists do not elude NIU athletics as many players, coaches and teams have been writing their letters to Santa with presents...

The last time the NIU men’s basketball team played Illinois State, sophomore Todd Peterson scored a career-high 18 points. Peterson topped himself on Wednesday when he set a new career high with 19 points as NIU (2-1) beat ISU 66-55 at the Convocation...

The NIU men’s basketball team hasn’t beaten a ranked team in 30 years. The team will have a chance to change that at 7:30 p.m. today when the Huskies travel to South Bend, Ind., to play 21st-ranked Notre Dame. NIU last defeated a ranked team in 1973...

Despite a second-half comeback attempt by Eastern Illinois, the NIU men’s basketball team held on for a 83-76 win Saturday night to begin its season. In front of 3,621 at the Convocation Center, the Huskies were up by as many as 17 points in the second...

Freshman accounting major Ryan Shaughnessy dove to the floor trying to save an errant pass from one of his teammates during basketball practice Wednesday. He wasn’t going all out for NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson. He was helping prepare the...

When the NIU men’s basketball team was ranked No. 1 in the MAC preseason poll, the stage was set for fans to wonder: Will the basketball team match the success of the football team? The NIU football team, also picked first in the MAC, began its season...

Two signings have NIU women’s basketball coach Carole Hammerle excited. The Huskies inked 6-foot-1 forward Nikita Odom and 6-foot point guard Whitney Lowe to National Letters of Intent. “These two players are going to make an immediate impact on the...

Playing without preseason All-MAC guard Perry Smith, the NIU basketball team defeated the Spotlite Jammers 89-47 in the second and final exhibition game of the season. Smith sat out with an ankle injury he sustained during practice. He is expected to...

At 4:05 p.m. Sunday at the Convocation Center, the NIU men’s basketball team will play the Spotlite Jammers in its final exhibition game before the regular season begins. NIU will start the regular season on Nov. 22 at home against Eastern Illinois....

Familiar faces will collide at 7:05 p.m. today at the Convocation Center when the NIU basketball team plays North Central College. A Division III school, the Cardinals, who finished 8-17 the past two years, will mark the first exhibition game of the season...

Coming off its first winning season since 1996, the NIU men’s basketball team is ranked the preseason No. 1 in the MAC; but that means nothing to Huskies coach Rob Judson. “It’s nice to be picked at the top in November, but our goal is to be there...