Looking at all the new faces on the bench of the NIU men's basketball team, there is no doubt the Huskies are shallow when it comes to experience. However, the cagers' new graduate assistant, Mike Schalow, might be the exception. The 25-year-old graduate...

General George Patton would have been proud of the NIU men's basketball team last night. Not only did the Huskies win the battle, they also won the war the NIU coaching staff had anticipated. Antwon Harmon's 15-foot jumper, with one second remaining,...

By putting big-name opponents on its non-conference schedule, the NIU women's basketball program hopes to become a big name itself. With NCAA Division I powerhouses like Old Dominion (NIU lost 81-69 Friday), North Carolina State, Nevada-Las Vegas, New...

Although sophomores Donnell Thomas and Donald Whiteside have been declared co-captains of the NIU men's basketball team, another Huskie has taken on a different leadership role. Standing 6-foot-9 at 245 pounds, freshman Brent Varner has acquired the nickname...

From Saturday's opening tipoff, a scrappy NIU men's basketball team fit coach Jim Rosborough's description of a "young and restless" squad. But the Huskies' 120-75 demolishing of Division III Bethel College was pretty much a gimmee for NIU in its home...

Baseball legend Yogi Berra once said that the game isn't over until it's over. In the case of the NIU women's basketball team, head coach Jane Albright might have wished Saturday night's game only lasted the first 20 minutes. Despite leading 37-35 as...

Will this be the year women's basketball coach Jane Albright sees her team's hopes come to fruition? Well, for starters, Albright will have a squad of her own. Meaning that all nine of the players listed on the roster have been recruited by the Huskie...

On the surface, Saturday night's 120-75 drubbing of Bethel College at Chick Evans Field House would appear to have been a Huskie offensive clinic. And it was. When a team shoots 56 percent from the field, hits 73 percent of its 3-point attempts and scores...

Don't be alarmed. The ear-shattering sound you'll hear later this week will be courtesy of the 1988-89 men's basketball team. It will either be the shattering of the sound barrier as a squad of young and eager athletes soar to new heights, or the crash-landing...

As starting lineups go, this one is in a class by itself. Sophomore class—that is. With a roster that includes two junior transfers, six sophomores and four freshmen, what else is a coach to do? Actually, men's head basketball coach Jim Rosborough said...

...women's Huskie basketball squads Donald Whiteside "Anyone who questions his size has no idea what beats inside that young man's chest," NIU men's coach Jim Rosborough said. "He won't have to score a lot to be valuable to us." This 5-foot-10 sophomore...

Come Saturday at 7:35 p.m., the NIU women's basketball team will begin their 1988-89 season in Norfolk, Va., against Old Dominion, a team the Huskies will look to beat en route to the start of a winning season. Last year, the Lady Monarchs earned a spot...