If basketball were more like boxing, Saturday's NIU men's basketball game might have a name like "the battle by the bay," or "the Mid-Con clash II." But if any game this season doesn't need any extra hype, it's Saturday's 7:30 p.m. road match against...

Several NIU women's sports programs will find themselves in a new home for the 1992-93 season. Although a formal announcement isn't expected until Friday, NIU's Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell confirmed NIU's decision during a telephone call Thursday...

Five-thousand miles is a long way to travel to play tennis. Erik Andersch, the Huskies' No. 3 singles player, made the trip from Sweden with the help of his friend Ova Pipkorn. Pipkorn convinced Andersch to come to the U.S. to pursue his academic and...

"There is no ‘I' in the word, team." This is the first commandment on an NIU men's basketball team that is enjoying a banner 20-win season due to its team play. Nowhere is this team play exhibited better than on defense, where the Huskies currently...

Eager to forget the Northwestern loss, the NIU women's basketball team boarded the bus to Dayton, Ohio Wednesday. The Huskies will try to get back on the winning track when they take on North Star Conference opponent Wright State University Thursday night....

Although several of NIU's women's athletic programs are presently in the North Star Conference, that may change. NIU's Athletic Board supported the position of the university and Intercollegiate Athletic Administration at its Wednesday meeting to integrate...

NIU's graduation rate for its student-athletes, according to its latest report, is the same as NIU's general student body, 48.3 percent. NIU must file an academic report to the NCAA each year which charts the graduation rates over a five-year period for...

EVANSTON—Remember that 99-74 thumping the NIU women's basketball team put to Northwestern last season? Apparently the Wildcats did, because Tuesday night the Big 10 school returned the 25-point favor by pounding the Huskies 91-66. The loss snapped the...

When the NIU men's basketball team defeated DePaul on the night of January 15, they did so in front of 6,261 screaming Huskies fans. The crowd was the biggest to ever attend a basketball game at Chick Evans Field House. The game was also highlighted by...

Who will be NIU's next Stacey Robinson? The answer to that question may be contained in the recently released list of high school football players that have signed national letters of intent to attend NIU. Although Robinson's successor at the quarterback...

"The road to the Final Four" is the line CBS uses to promote its telecasts of college basketball. It appears more and more likely that the NIU men's basketball team is going to be on that road. With 20 wins under their belts and a commanding hold on first...

Backup NIU quarterback Bart Geiser was arrested this weekend at Molly's Eatery and Drinkery, 1022 W. Lincoln Hwy., during routine identification checks. Geiser, 20, was listed at the No. 4 quarterback slot entering NIU's 1990 season after red-shirting...