Let us simply look at the record, and a picture of the 1986 season—and the stage the NIU football program has reached—naturally emerges. Five wins, five losses and one tie. The five wins, three more than in 1986, show you progress. The five losses...

NIU's women basketball players aren't getting much rest these days. The Huskies head into their second home game in three days as they take on the South Carolina Lady Gamecocks at 7:30 p.m. at Chick Evans Field House. The women cagers enter tonight's...

NIU's football season took a roller coaster ride through the season, basically ending back where it started, with a .500 record. The Huskies had one two-game winning streak and one two-game losing streak while alternating the rest of the time to compile...

The North Star Conference will survive despite the loss of Notre Dame and Dayton next year. That is the consensus of NIU Women's Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones, volleyball coach Herb Summers and women's basketball coach Jane Albright. While all...

The NIU wrestling team gets some valuable leadership from a group of dedicated graduate assistant coaches who are rewarded by seeing the wrestlers do well in tournaments. Huskie coach Ed Vatch said he cannot express how vital these grad assistants are...

MADISON, Wis.—The NIU men's basketball team has to learn how to win. The Huskies fell 87-77 to Wisconsin Tuesday night in the Dane County Coliseum before 4,775 fans. NIU came back from a 14-point deficit to pull within 72-69 with 5:42 remaining, but...

NIU's women cagers learned their lesson the hard way with a 89-73 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes at Chick Evans Field House Tuesday night. The Huskies found out they had to hold on to the ball to produce any offense. Nineteen turnovers in the first half...

Ohio State's women's basketball team, ranked 10th in the nation by Sports Illustrated and 11th by the Associated Press, will invade Chick Evans Field House tonight to take on the Huskies in a 7:30 p.m. contest. Not only are the Huskies excited because...

There were questions to be answered Monday before the football version of the weekly Huskie Club Luncheon could go into cold storage. Questions about Nevada-Las Vegas. About the upcoming recruiting season. And about the status of injured Huskie quarterback...

Although NIU men's basketball player John Culbertson's collegiate coaches said they are unaware of his active warrant, two former assistants said they had problems with him during their two years together. Culbertson is the subject of a warrant in connection...

The NIU men's basketball team and the Wisconsin Badgers are in the odd position of trying to rebound from opening victories. Both teams enter tonight's 7:05 p.m. contest at the Dane County Coliseum with 1-0 records after victories in which they felt they...

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...