"It certainly wasn’t pretty." Coach Carol Hammerle’s statement best defines the NIU women’s basketball team’s victory over the Akron Zips 45-42 Saturday at the Convocation Center. Both teams combined for under 34 percent shooting and finished...

Despite a loss, Akron women’s basketball coach Kelly Kennedy could not have been happier after Saturday’s game at the Convocation Center. Kennedy was happy with the way her team played against what she called a great NIU team. In her first year, Kennedy...

Two Huskies played unexpectedly major roles along with Scott Owen in NIU’s 21-16 win over eighth-ranked Missouri Sunday at the Convocation Center. The third-ranked Owen was having his way with the Tigers’ Cody Green, who was filling in for 11th-ranked...

For the second time this season, NIU wrestling has taken down another Top 10 team in the country. This time it happened to be the eighth-ranked Missouri Tigers from the mighty Big 12 conference, which has five teams ranked in the Top 20. The No. 20 Huskies...

With its confidence peaking, the NIU gymnastics team travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., to face the University of Michigan at 7 p.m. today. The Huskies (5-6, 1-2) are coming off their best performance of the season, scoring a 194.675 against Bowling Green as...

For the remainder of the season, the Huskie basketball team will have a bullseye on its back. NIU (13-9, 9-3 MAC) brings its MAC West leading record to Ypsilanti, Mich., where the Huskies will battle Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Huskies have...

With both teams ranked in the Top 20 combining for nine nationally ranked wrestlers, the NIU and Missouri wrestling match-up has the equation to be great. Taking place at 2:05 p.m. Sunday at the Convocation Center, the Huskies (12-6) are ranked at No....

You live by the sword, you die by the sword. For the NIU women’s basketball team, this adage refers to its three-point shooting. Last Sunday against Buffalo, the Huskies connected on 10-of-19 thr ee-point field goals which carried them to a 76-64 win....

A few days before Miami of Ohio’s trip to NIU, the RedHawks’ basketball coach Maria Fantanarosa was approached by her MAC Player of the Year Heather Cusick. While coaches at Miami know the defensive matchups for the upcoming game in advance, they...

Fear not college basketball fans. With one of the MAC’s best players already gone from the corn city, another is on the way. Ohio University’s Player of the Year Candidate Brandon Hunter collected 18 points and grabbed 13 rebounds on his trip to DeKalb....

Today marks the second day the NIU baseball team will go to the White Sox Training Academy in Lisle in preparation for its first game of the season on Feb. 21 against Louisville. This marks the second of four times NIU will be at the west suburban complex....

Single, double, triple, heck, the whole team was on Brandon Hunter. At least that’s the way Ohio’s 6-foot-7, 260-pound All-MAC First Teamer felt after his Bobcats fell 80-53 to NIU Tuesday night. "It was never really a double team for me, their whole...