Give a huskie some familiar surroundings and it will escape undaunted. Give the Huskies a challenge and they will respond in ascending fashion. As the NIU women's gymnastics team took off on its once-a-year plane trip to faraway land, realizations could...

Mirror, mirror, on the court: who's the focused of them all? Based on what's taken place the last month, NIU's women's basketball team just may lay claim to that distinction. Furthermore, the performance executed Tuesday night lends even more support...

The NIU athletic department plans to announce a major renovation project for Huskie Stadium later this spring. The project will involve two phases to improve the present seating and other spectator facilities. When asked why the stadium is in need of...

Hangin' tough. Going up against a Florida State team that knows what toughness is night in and night out in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Jane Albright-Dieterle's crew knew it couldn't let down for even one possession Tuesday night. "It's not a fly-by-night...

Shake, rattle and roll. That's what type of effort was needed by the NIU women's basketball team Tuesday night to record its 13th win in 14 games—an 86-80 non-conference thriller over Florida State before 2,294 at Chick Evans Field House. The shaking...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Everyone wants it but very few get it. Just ask Jane Albright-Dieterle and her women's basketball team. They're a mighty ‘respectable' 14-3, coasting along in a different time zone from the rest of the Mid-Con with a mark of 9-0, sitting...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Everyone wants it but very few get it. Just ask Jane Albright-Dieterle and her women's basketball team. They're a mighty ‘respectable' 14-3, coasting along in a different time zone from the rest of the Mid-Con with a mark of 9-0, sitting...

A great defensive scheme engineered by head coach Brian Hammel made UIC's scoring duo of Kenny Williams and Sherell Ford disappear last night during NIU's 66-64 victory at the UIC Pavilion. David Mitchell hit the key bucket of the game with under two...

The NIU men's tennis team has won two Mid-Continent Conference Championships in as many years and are looking to grasp a third. Their quest continues tomorrow at the Campus Recreation Center when the Huskies take on Eastern Michigan University at 8:00...

Just as NIU's women's basketball team was ready to put to rest the headache it received last Tuesday at Iowa, on came another migraine—only this time, it was of the Huskies' own doing. Cindy Conner caught an elbow from teammate Leslie Pottinger toward...

During the NIU women's basketball team's eight-game winning streak, coach Jane Albright-Dieterle had spoken of how her team was growing as a unit. Tuesday night, the 24th-ranked Huskies were given a big clue as to how much more growing needs to be accomplished...