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...

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...

College basketball has had great innovators throughout its history: Dr. James Naismith, Adolph Rupp, Henry Iba, John Wooden, Ray Meyer and even Bobby Knight. But as far as women's basketball, not one coach would argue as to who is the "legend" of its...

The Huskies men and women's basketball teams are getting an extra boost this year from a growing group of fans known as the "Dog Pound." They are easily recognized as the group of fans dressed in red T-shirts behind the opponent's backboard, razzing refs...

Despite the fact that the NIU men's basketball team was facing two of the better Mid-Continent Conference teams this weekend and earned a split, head Huskies coach Brian Hammel isn't satisfied. "I'm greedy, I want to win them all," Hammel said. "(The...

Valparaiso came to Chick Evans Field House Tuesday night complete with its schizophrenic, high-scoring offense. The Lady Crusaders expected the Huskies to try to run with them, consequently, they thought, playing into their hands. But after the game,...

With 1:36 remaining in NIU's wire-to-wire win Tuesday night, Angela Lockett put an exclamation point on her career-best performance. The Huskie sophomore's block of Valparaiso's Aimee Forsman's shot left no doubt as to who was in control throughout NIU's...

Anything that could have happened this weekend at Anderson Hall Pool to the NIU men's and women's swimming and diving teams, did happen, as both squads split two meets within the course of 22 hours. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame came to DeKalb on Friday...

NIU struggled to win its second road game of the year, but the women's basketball team's head coach, Jane Albright-Dieterle, was pleased with the Huskies 82-72 victory against Wright State Saturday at the Nutter Center. "I think we played really hard...