Beginning the Thanksgiving break with a win over Loyola at home on Wednesday, the Huskies followed up with a road loss to Valparaiso on Saturday. The loss against Valpo dropped NIU below .500 with a 2-3 mark. NIU 69, Loyola 67 With his team shooting 47...

Continuing its holiday road trip, the NIU women’s basketball team went to Bozeman, Mont., for the Gran Tree Inn Classic. The Huskies (2-2) left the tournament with a loss to Montana State in the opener, but rebounded for a win in the consolation game...

The Big Ten has not been friendly to the NIU wrestling team so far this season. The Huskies (0-2) hosted 24th-ranked Wisconsin on Saturday and didn’t have enough fire power in the lower weight classes to keep up with the Badgers (3-0) as they lost 26-12....

If only NIU had won one more game. After getting swept by an 11-18 Toledo squad the night before, the Huskies’ volleyball season came to a close Saturday in Kalamazoo as they lost the decisive fifth game against Western Michigan. They lost with a final...

Making the trip to face Arizona State on Monday, the NIU women’s basketball team was without its best two players for most of the game because of foul trouble, eventually falling 70-62. As junior forward Jennifer Youngblood and senior guard Kristan...

Even without 6-foot-9 Andre Brown inside, the Blue Demons frustrated the Huskies and prevented them from anything easy in the paint. Brown, who averaged 14.5 points a game last season and 9.4 rebounds - both team highs - would have presented a problem...

Taking on the two-time defending NCAA Champions might be intimidating to some teams, but the NIU wrestling team didn’t back down. Even though NIU fell short against Minnesota 26-17, coach Dave Grant still was happy with his team’s effort. "The kids...

More than 11 minutes into the game, everything looked good for NIU on Saturday night. Tied up at 15-all, the jitters of opening the Convocation Center and facing DePaul (1-0) had, what looked like, no ill effects on the Huskies (1-2). Then DePaul went...

All the hard work that NIU wrestler Scott Owen has done in his life finally has caught up to him. While training hard this past offseason, the 5-foot-9 Owen has gotten sore hips from his strenuous workouts. "In my mindset, that’s getting me better,"...

ThunderStix will be back this weekend for NIU’s crucial game against Toledo at 11:05 a.m. Saturday. But it won’t just be ThunderStix found amongst the predicted crowd of 25,000; fans can also expect CheerStix to grace the crowd. Don’t get too excited;...

Bowling Green who? A week after NIU won its biggest game in two decades, the triumph over BGSU doesn’t look all that impressive. After falling to the Huskies 26-17, Bowling Green went down to South Florida on Saturday and got mopped by the Bulls, 29-7....

Now knowing what needs to happen to make the MAC tournament, the NIU volleyball team holds its destiny in its hands. NIU (13-15, 6-10 MAC) is tied with Western Michigan for the last seed in the MAC tournament with a 6-10 conference record, followed by...