For the remainder of the season, the Huskie basketball team will have a bullseye on its back. NIU (13-9, 9-3 MAC) brings its MAC West leading record to Ypsilanti, Mich., where the Huskies will battle Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Huskies have...

With both teams ranked in the Top 20 combining for nine nationally ranked wrestlers, the NIU and Missouri wrestling match-up has the equation to be great. Taking place at 2:05 p.m. Sunday at the Convocation Center, the Huskies (12-6) are ranked at No....

You live by the sword, you die by the sword. For the NIU women’s basketball team, this adage refers to its three-point shooting. Last Sunday against Buffalo, the Huskies connected on 10-of-19 thr ee-point field goals which carried them to a 76-64 win....

A few days before Miami of Ohio’s trip to NIU, the RedHawks’ basketball coach Maria Fantanarosa was approached by her MAC Player of the Year Heather Cusick. While coaches at Miami know the defensive matchups for the upcoming game in advance, they...

Fear not college basketball fans. With one of the MAC’s best players already gone from the corn city, another is on the way. Ohio University’s Player of the Year Candidate Brandon Hunter collected 18 points and grabbed 13 rebounds on his trip to DeKalb....

Today marks the second day the NIU baseball team will go to the White Sox Training Academy in Lisle in preparation for its first game of the season on Feb. 21 against Louisville. This marks the second of four times NIU will be at the west suburban complex....

Single, double, triple, heck, the whole team was on Brandon Hunter. At least that’s the way Ohio’s 6-foot-7, 260-pound All-MAC First Teamer felt after his Bobcats fell 80-53 to NIU Tuesday night. "It was never really a double team for me, their whole...

In a game that featured one of the most explosive players in the MAC, it was NIU’s defense that stole the show Tuesday night at the Convocation Center. The Huskies (13-9, 9-3) held Brandon Hunter’s Ohio team (7-12, 4-7) to 25 percent shooting and...

The NIU baseball team’s junior pitcher, Zach Minor, was arrested by DeKalb police just after 1 a.m. Sunday for entering and remaining in a tavern as a minor, according to DeKalb police reports. Minor, 20, had a 6.44 ERA for the Huskies this past season,...

Seventeen meets ago, on Feb. 27, 1999, against Kent State was the last time the Huskie gymnastics team prevailed over a MAC opponent. The monkey was finally off the Huskies’ back as they scored a 194.675 to 192.525 victory over an energized Bowling...

If you light a fire underneath the beast, it will just anger him more. The NIU basketball team realizes this and knows that Ohio’s Brandon Hunter, the nation’s leading rebounder, will come into DeKalb today on a mission. With a 7:05 p.m. start time...

NIU coach Rob Judson was surprised to say the least after his team’s 67-61 upset win over MAC powerhouse Kent State on Saturday. "I’m speechless," NIU coach Rob Judson said. "I don’t know what to say. I’m humbled. Our kids played so well. They...