NIU's graduation rate for its student-athletes, according to its latest report, is the same as NIU's general student body, 48.3 percent. NIU must file an academic report to the NCAA each year which charts the graduation rates over a five-year period for...

Eager to forget the Northwestern loss, the NIU women's basketball team boarded the bus to Dayton, Ohio Wednesday. The Huskies will try to get back on the winning track when they take on North Star Conference opponent Wright State University Thursday night....

When the NIU men's basketball team defeated DePaul on the night of January 15, they did so in front of 6,261 screaming Huskies fans. The crowd was the biggest to ever attend a basketball game at Chick Evans Field House. The game was also highlighted by...

EVANSTON—Remember that 99-74 thumping the NIU women's basketball team put to Northwestern last season? Apparently the Wildcats did, because Tuesday night the Big 10 school returned the 25-point favor by pounding the Huskies 91-66. The loss snapped the...

Without a doubt, this less-than-average-height NIU boss is standing taller than any other gymnastic coach in the country. But what NIU's 5-foot gymnastics coach Bobbie Cesarek lacks in stature, she makes up for in enthusiasm and gymnastic knowhow. That...

To know women's basketball in Illinois is to know that the two best women's basketball teams in the state will be in the same gym Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. NIU (17-4, 9-0) travels to Northwestern (14-6, 7-4) in what may be one of the best games of the year....

Yes, the NIU women's basketball team handled the Akron Lady Zips rather easily at the Chick Evans Field House Saturday afternoon, 79-62. And yes, the Huskies had more rebounds, blocked shots, steals and assists than the Zips. But there was something dull...

It was not a picture-perfect game, but the NIU women's basketball team earned another win Saturday in a 79-62 victory over North Star Conference foe University of Akron. Despite NIU's imperfections and rather dull performance, the Huskies (17-4) moved...

When the NIU women's basketball team trots onto the Chick Evans Field House court for pre-game warmups, the Huskie Band simultaneously cranks out Francis Stroup's Huskie Fight Song. At the level the Huskies are playing at nowadays, maybe a more appropriate...

Opposites will attract Thursday at Chick Evans Field House when the NIU women's basketball team squares off with Cleveland State University in a 7 p.m. tip-off. NIU, boasting a 7-0 North Star Conference ledger, hosts winless CSU (0-7), in what could be...

With the 112-64 destruction of the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers, the NIU women's basketball team sent a simple, but sincere message to the visitors: Welcome to Division I basketball. In its first season at the elite level, UW-M has already experienced...

Tuesday night's women's basketball game between NIU and the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers never reached the fervor of the Huskies' Thursday night thriller, but the end result was the same. The Huskies (15-4) coupled blistering shooting and the steadily...