Saturday's women's basketball game at Chick Evans Field House was a coach's dream—a NIU coach's dream, that is. The Huskies, behind 1,526 enthusiastic fans, made their brief stop at home a memorable one as NIU (17-3, 6-0) remained the only undefeated...

The Wright State Raiders are known for their offense, but it was their defense, coupled with NIU's cold shooting, that was the difference in Saturday's 66-47 Huskies loss in Dayton, Ohio. The 47 points was the lowest output for NIU (10-9) since the 1984-85...

What the NIU women's basketball team encounters on the road tonight at 6:30 could be labeled as its most important and most challenging battle of the season. Not only will the Huskies be facing the nation's No. 5 team, but the opponents are last year's...

A new month is upon us, but for the NIU women's basketball team, it's the same old story...win, win, win. That's what the Huskies are going to have to do if they expect to get a bid to the NCAA tournament next month. So a strong showing in February is...

There will be a double feature at Anderson Swimming Pool tonight starring NIU record holder Jenny Wendell. Wendell, who last weekend broke her old 400-yard Individual Medley record by over a full second, will lead the women's team into tonight's 7 p.m....

The Huskies basketball team can't afford to bask in the aftermath of its road win over Evansville. NIU's next opponent has the best record among independent schools in the country. The Wright State Raiders (15-4) have only been a Division I school for...

Records are made to be broken. Every day a new record is set somewhere in the world, but one was set very close to home by NIU's women's basketball star Carol Owens. Owens, also known as C.O., has set her share of records for the Huskies which range from...

Sometimes Huskie men's basketball coach Jim Molinari feels so strongly about something that the words and the emotion run into each other and stumble out. He says he overreacts to both victories and defeats because he wants what's best for the players...

The ninth-ranked Northwestern Wildcats came into town last night and showed just how powerful they are with a 37-9 win over the Huskie wrestlers. NU rolled up a 28-0 lead after the first five matches and never looked back. Gene Marino (118 pounds) and...

Winning can become a habit, at least according to one tired cliche. But so can losing. With Tuesday's 53-48 upset victory over Evansville, the Huskies gained perhaps their most important win of the season. More importantly, they might also have stopped...

Many things are unpredictable in life, but when the NIU women's basketball team journeyed to Illinois-Chicago the end results were about as predictable as the sun coming up tomorrow. UIC has struggled this year in the win column with a 1-15, 0-4 record,...

Chuck Ehrlich, NIU men's gymnastic coach for 17 years, said he resigned Wednesday partly because of nationwide rumors of his program's elimination. Ehrlich said the rumors began in August and dealt with the cutting of the gymnastics program to make way...