The moment has finally come for the individuals on NIU's wrestling team. That moment is The NCAA West Regional, which determines which wrestlers will travel to Oklahoma City, Okla., to compete with the best wrestlers in the nation at the National Tournament...

Starting Friday, the NIU softball team will spend its Spring Break in Texas and Indiana as the Huskies open the 1992 campaign by playing 21 games in 10 days. NIU's first 20 games will take place in Texas, including two tournaments at Texas A&M. NIU...

Various school records were shattered as the NIU women's swimming and diving team darted to a fourth-place showing and the NIU men wound up with a third-place ribbon in the Midwest Independent Regional Championships held last week. The divers started...

NIU men's basketball coach Brian Hammel and his staff have gone 4-for-4 as far as instate recruiting is concerned. Hammel signed four players from the state of Illinois in the November early signing period, and the quartet made various All-State honor...

A little history lesson before the North Star Conference Tournament convenes on Thursday ... First, this is it for the NSC, or the "Final Edition" as this year's tourney is called. After nine years as one of the country's top women's conferences, the...

Ohio is a state the NIU tennis team was happy to leave this weekend after losing to Ohio State University and Bowling Green State University by the identical scores of 7-2. NIU surrendered its fifth loss to a Big Ten school this year against the Buckeyes....

Giving up 18 points before the match ever started didn't help the NIU wrestling team one bit. Winning two out of the seven remaining matches made things even worse as the Huskies dropped a 39-10 decision to Central Michigan Friday at Chick Evans Field...

Perhaps it was appropriate that NIU seniors Brian Molis and Mike Hidden played their last home game in what turned out to be a test of wills. What characterizes the Huskie duo the most is their tenacious lunch-pail attitude toward basketball. They and...

The preference was to play Akron, but when you're struggling to get on track, you'll take the next best thing, er, the next worst team. The NIU women's basketball team will start anew on Thursday in the North Star Conference Tournament. Although the Huskies...

Two more difficult opponents, Ohio State University and Bowling Green State University, lay ahead for the NIU men's tennis team this weekend. The Buckeyes mark the fifth Big Ten team that the Huskies have done battle with thus far. Against the previous...

The 2-16 NIU wrestling team will try and end its season on a winning note when Central Michigan visits the Chick Evans Field House for a noon match today. Central Michigan is an opponent the Huskies know little about. However, they do know one thing:...

Even with the North Star Conference title well under its wings, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Lady Phoenix didn't want to hold back during Thursday night's game with NIU. "If you're really going to be that championship team, you're going to respond...