With Patty Groth's women's tennis team traveling Thursday evening to face the University of Illinois, one has to think of the Huskies' match on Feb. 1 against the Purdue Boilermakers. After all, all of the Big Ten teams are the same. Right? Earlier this...

Coaches across the nation like to call it the ‘stretch run'—those last two weeks of the season for their teams to tune it up before the madness of March comes roaring in. For Jane Albright-Dieterle and her NIU women's basketball team, this year's...

Huskie gymnast Sandy Escobar has had her share of setbacks, but nothing it seems, can deprive her of contributing all she can. In November of last year, only weeks after recovering from appendicitis surgery, Escobar fractured her left ankle and underwent...

Monday's 82-77 win by the NIU men's basketball team over Western Illinois at times resembled open gym night at the YMCA. Between 37 combined turnovers, some unconscious shooting performances and abysmal refereeing, there was an out-of-bounds play that...

So far so good for coach Patty Groth and her NIU women's tennis squad. Four matches are in the book this season, and the Huskies have roared out to a 3-1 start against a strong slate. It's this good beginning that should help Groth's crew as they prepare...

With five players scoring in double figures, NIU's women's basketball team beat the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 83-76 Tuesday night in front of 210 fans at Klotsche Center. The non-conference win raised NIU's record to 12-9. UW-M's record dropped...

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...

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...