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Cold steel up next

By MARC WESNER | November 19, 1993

The NIU women's volleyball team will wrap up the regular season this weekend with two conference matches against Youngstown State Penguins and Cleveland State Vikings. The Huskies already own the Mid-Continent Conference title, locking it away with an...

Hill highlights 31-point blowout

By RICH CARLSON | November 19, 1993

It is one thing to take the opening tip in for a basket, but it's another to not look back the rest of the game. That is what happened in the women's defeat of the Czech Republic Strakonice team 110-79 Thursday night. The Huskies went up 8-0 before Strakonice...

O’Dell informs coaches

By PATRICK H. MOORE | November 18, 1993

Yesterday Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell held a meeting with the head coaches of NIU's athletic teams to inform them on the options he is considering regarding the possibility of NIU leaving the Mid-Continent Conference. O'Dell discussed very few specifics,...

Czech(er) game

By RICH CARLSON | November 18, 1993

It is exhibition basketball time for the 1993-94 NIU women's team and this game is truly non-conference. In fact the opposition is not even from this country. The Czech Republic Strakonice team will bring a touch of international ball when they immigrate...

“Impatient” Huskies still cruise

By MARC WESNER | November 18, 1993

Either the Huskies looked really good last night or the Ginestico of Brazil team was really bad. According to Brazil's head coach, Brad Casey, his team was really bad. "Any time you make 32 turnovers, you deserve to get your (butts) kicked." he admitted....

Flaws seen in defense

By PATRICK H. MOORE | November 18, 1993

Last night at Chick Evans Field House the men's basketball team dusted the Ginestico of Brazil squad 90-59. Huskie fans finally got a chance to see Huskie super-soph Jamal Robinson lace up his sneakers and get his college career off to a late start after...

NCAA tourney may come to NIU

By MATT KERLIN | November 17, 1993

With first place of the Mid-Continent Conference locked up, the Huskie volleyball squad will host the Mid-Con Championship Tournament on Nov. 26 and 27. Depending on the outcome of that tourney, the Huskies could find themselves in a position never experienced...

Hooping it up at the Fieldhouse

By MARC WESNER | November 17, 1993

When the tentative NIU men's basketball schedule came out last July, the Huskies were scheduled to play the Russia select team at the Chick Evans Fieldhouse tonight. That isn't going to happen. Instead, the Ginestico of Brazil team will drop by for a...

Is NIU boarding a sinking ship?

By THE SPORTS STAFF | November 16, 1993

A familiar saying is being whispered around the circles of those involved in NIU's Intercollegiate Athletic programs. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. They are referring to the proposed move from the Mid-Continent Conference to— you guessed it—another...

No. 1 Notre Dame looks to the future

November 16, 1993

RON LESKO AP SPORTS WRITER SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)—It has been exactly three years since Notre Dame last was No. 1 in the country. The Fighting Irish lost at home that week to No. 18 Penn State. With No. 17 Boston College coming to South Bend on a roll...

Bears push pastChargers’ defense

By BERNIE WILSON | November 15, 1993

AP SPORTS WRITER SAN DIEGO (AP)—The San Diego Chargers' pass defense lived on the edge for two straight weeks, until the Chicago Bears finally pushed them off. Jim Harbaugh threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to rookie Curtis Conway in the third quarter...

Spikers capture Mid-Continent crown

By MARC WESNER | November 15, 1993

It was a typical weekend for the NIU volleyball team. They thoroughly dominated two more Mid-Continent Conference teams, delighted the fans with crashing kill after kill and more or less made the opposition look like smurfs trying to spike a volleyball...