Rebounding from Friday's home loss to Tennessee, NIU's women's basketball team defeated North Star Conference foe University of Illinois-Chicago 72-55 Monday night at UIC's Physical Education building in front of 202 fans. The Huskies were led by Cindy...

With the NIU men's basketball team down to nine players, three of them walk-ons, any victory is bound to be a team effort. And that was certainly the case last night in Charleston as the depleted Huskies stunned Eastern Illinois 76-67 in a Mid-Continent...

While NIU's swimming teams enjoyed the weekend off, the NIU men's and women's diving teams did not fare as well as coach Jeff Symons would have liked against numerous diving squads—most of which came out of the Big 10 Conference—at the Illini Classic...

The NIU men's basketball team had some big shoes to fill with the absence of leading scorer Brian Molis Saturday at Western Illinois. Seven-one sophomore center Steve Oldendorf stepped in with a career performance. But it wasn't enough as the Mid-Continent...

Chalk one up for the NIU women's gymnastics team. And, chalk one up for senior tumbler Lori Lebo who set a new school record on vault after hitting for a 9.75, and breaking the previous mark of 9.70. The Huskies hosted their first meet on Saturday and...

Defending Mid-Continent Conference tennis champions, NIU, dropped a 5-2 decision to the University of Cincinnati at the Recreation Center Sunday. The Huskies came out swinging with their only two victories in the first three matches. In a true crowd-pleaser,...

It was as different as night and day, or as Tennessee head coach Pat Head Summitt put it, "it was two completely different halves." The Lady Volunteers (12-2) extinguished any hopes of an NIU (9-6) upset Friday night with a furious 11-0 run to open the...

Like all fine, well-trained regiments, Tennessee's women's basketball team doesn't flinch when faced with a threat. So when the fourth-ranked Lady Volunteers found themselves down one point at halftime to NIU in hostile Chick Evans Field House Friday...

Although the record of the NIU wrestling team isn't overwhelming (1-6) so far, some of the competition has been. And the schedule doesn't get any easier as the Huskies travel to Champaign this weekend to take on Big Ten foes Illinois and Purdue. The one...

It's home-opener time, and the NIU women's gymnastics team is ready to put on a show. The Huskies will make their debut tomorrow at Chick Evans Field House when they host the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Valparaiso University and Winona State University....

First, the principals. In this corner, fighting out of Knoxville, Tenn., wearing the orange-with-white-trim trunks, ranked No. 4 in all polls, a record of 11-2 with their last win a 108-26 knockout of Florida Atlantic, the defending champion of the world,...

As the Mid-Continent Conference race starts to take shape, two squads looking to move up from the middle of the pack square off Saturday at Macomb. Coach Brian Hammel's Huskies (3-3, 5-10) take on the Western Illinois Leathernecks (2-2, 6-7) in a 7:30...