NIU men's and women's diving teams separated from its usual partner—the swimming team—Friday and Saturday, to test their skills in the Northwestern Big Ten Western meet in Evanston. Although NIU did not capture first place in any of the four diving...

There is no practice situation that could put NIU's women's basketball team in the position they were in Sunday. With 49 seconds left on the clock of the championship game of the Fifth Annual Fastbreak Fest, the Huskies were down 74-73 to Iowa, the sixth-ranked...

NIU's diving teams will test their ability to handle pressure at Northwestern's Big Ten Western Meet Friday and Saturday in Evanston. "They're (divers) all excited about the meet," coach Chris Chelich said. "It will be a peak meet before finals and we're...

Being that it's early December, it's beginning to look a lot like ... NCAA basketball tournament time. And, according to NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright, the best women's tourney in the nation will take place right here in DeKalb, this weekend....

Perhaps warmer weather can help the NIU men's basketball team when they take on host Texas-El Paso Friday at 10 p.m. in the first round of the Metromobile Tournament. The visiting Huskies (1-1) will be looking for their first road win following Tuesday's...

Having a meet canceled is not always bad. The NIU wrestling team's dual meet tonight with Illinois will be changed due to scheduling problems. However, the Huskie freshmen grapplers will tangle with the Illini tonight in Champaign. The rescheduling could...

NIU's men and women swimmers will tread their way through the Wheaton Invitational Friday and Saturday in efforts to improve last year's standings. It will be the last meet this semester for the teams and both coaches are looking for a team effort, as...

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 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...