With the winning ways established by the NIU men's basketball team this season, it is not surprising that the recognition and the honors are starting to add up. NIU forward Donnell Thomas, who performed magnificently against DePaul, Wisconsin-Green Bay,...

The helmets and the shoulder pads are in storage, the Huskie Stadium turf is covered with snow, the players go about their business without worrying about two-a-days. Yet these are the days when the future success of NIU's football team will be determined....

Dubbed the pre-DePaul game, the NIU women's basketball team (11-4, 4-0) will try to extinguish the UIC Flames for the ninth consecutive time Thursday in a 7 p.m. battle at Chick Evans Field House. All NIU eyes must focus on a UIC team that comes to DeKalb...

After two losses last weekend, the NIU women's swimming team fell to 2-4. The Huskies lost a Friday dual meet at the University of Notre Dame, 172-122, and also came up short in a 167-118 Saturday afternoon home meeting with the University of Iowa. There...

In true swimming parlance, NIU's men's squad was "out-touched," 152-148 by the University of Notre Dame. Although the Huskies took first place in nine of 16 events, the "luck" of the Irish persisted in Friday's meet at UND's Rolfs Aquatic Center. Depth...

Believe it or not, there's only 45 days left for NIU baseball coach Joe "Spanky" McFarland to get his gang ready for the 1991 season. March 9th is the official date that McFarland will display his revival of an NIU baseball program that has been defunct...

Mats Persson got a key win for himself in NIU's men's tennis meet against Purdue, but his efforts did not help Huskies' coach Charles Merzbacher get his first Big Ten win. The Huskies suffered a 6-3 setback to the Boilermakers, the same margin they lost...

For apparently the first time since 1972, NIU's men's basketball team has received recognition in the AP Top-25 poll. The 13-2 Huskies earned five votes in the "others receiving votes" category. The five votes place NIU at the 41st spot in the weekly...

Illinois Benedictine College (14-4), a Division III school, came into the Chick Evans Field House Monday night and took full advantage of a tired NIU men's basketball team to nearly pull off what would have been a major upset. NIU (13-2) barely hung on...

Evidence that there is no such thing as a sure win in college basketball was provided at Chick Evans Field House Monday night, courtesy of Illinois Benedictine College. The Division III Eagles (14-4) took the heavily favored Huskies (13-2, 4-1) to the...

VALPARAISO—NIU's women's basketball team stuck with the game plan Monday night and consequently ran the Crusaders out of their own gym by a 95-82 tally. That game plan was simple: run, run, run. The Huskies came into the game averaging just over 81...

Hearing the words "Big Ten" doesn't frighten second-year NIU Men's Tennis Coach Charles Merzbacher. This Spring, the Huskies will face six Big Ten opponents, who are all ahead of NIU in the Midwest Region Poll. Merzbacher's crew, ranked No. 13 in the...