In the NIU wrestling room in Chick Evans Field House, 3:50 p.m., Feb. 3, T.C. Dantzler makes an announcement to everyone within earshot. "Hey, guys, I bet I don't get taken down today." Dantzler is a member of the NIU wrestling team. The 158-pound junior...

NIU's women's tennis team won two of three matches in Aurora over the weekend, moving its record to 3-1. The Huskies beat Toledo 7-2 Friday, beat Gustavus Adolphus 8-1 Saturday and lost 5-2 Sunday to Iowa State. "Those were extremely big wins for us,"...

Head NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel would just as soon forget his 100th career win. "There'll be no calls from the Hall of Fame for (tapes of Monday's game) for their archives," Hammel said. Artistic merits aside, the Huskies triumphed 82-77...

It was fitting that the seniors on the NIU men's and women's swimming and diving teams got recognized for their excellence prior to their final home meet against the UIC Flames. Somehow last week's honor of Mid-Continent Swimmer of the Week for Mark Oostman...

Brian Molis made the most of his opportunity to make amends for his poor 1-for-16 shooting performance on Saturday with a 9-for-16 effort Monday night against Western Illinois. Molis led the NIU men's basketball team to an 82-77 win over WIU by pouring...

Lack of success and proximity seem to be the major drawbacks for the NIU football team when it comes to recruiting players from the Chicagoland area. Only four of the 24 signed players by NIU head coach Charlie Sadler last week hail from Illinois. Some...

Certain losses are tougher to stomach than others, and for the Huskies, Saturday's 75-72 loss at Akron makes them want to. Not only had Akron won only four games this season, it had never beaten NIU in eight tries. "It bothered us all," NIU women's basketball...

NIU's choice to travel down the Canadian route for football players seems to have produced mixed reactions. Coming off a 2-9 campaign, the one coach that NIU sent to Canada for recruiting purposes ended up signing six high- schoolers and one junior college...

The final home meet for the NIU swimming and diving teams was not only successful, but historical, as both the men and the women came away with victories over the University of Illinois—Chicago Friday night at Anderson Hall Pool. The men's 124-116 win...

It took a while—five straight losses to be exact—but the NIU men's tennis team finally ended the drought on Sunday. The 2-5 Huskie netters hadn't tasted victory in over two weeks, so in came Eastern Michigan and out went NIU's frustrations. The end...

Officials from both NIU and the University of Notre Dame deny a Chicago Sun-Times report concerning the status of their women's basketball coaches. In Friday's edition, it was stated by writer Toni Ginnetti that Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw "could...

Sixth-ranked Northern Iowa wrestled like its ranking and Illinois State wrestled just well enough to hand the NIU wrestling team two dual-meet losses over the weekend. Northern Iowa shut out the Huskies 51-0, with the only close match coming from a hard...