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...

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...

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...

Only time will tell if the women's basketball team from Wisconsin-Milwaukee is coming to DeKalb at the right time. Huskie fans will either see a possessed Lisa Foss or an NIU team struggling to overcome an intensity drop when the Huskies take on the UW-M...

No time on the clock, tied 80-all, game on the line, first place at stake, and 2,405 fans quietly anticipating the two biggest free throws of the night. Playground fantasies turned into reality for NIU women's basketball forward Cindy Conner Thursday...

Every day of the week, someone, somewhere, has some kind of daily gimmick. The NFL has Super Bowl Sunday, ESPN has Big Monday, even the Loop has Two-For-Tuesday. So NIU has joined the club with their rendition of "Big Thursday." Included in the festivities...

Thursday's NIU women's basketball game with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is "Big." How big is it? Extremely. Very. Extraordinarily. There can't be enough adjectives to describe this opener to "Big Thursday." It's the battle of the North Star...

Two hours of practice, another hour of individual shooting drills, followed by a one-on-one game is just a typical workout for NIU women's basketball phenom Lisa Foss. This probably explains why Foss is in the position to becme NIU's all-time leading...

Akron and Cleveland, Ohio may not be the garden spots of the world, but it would not be surprising if NIU's men's basketball coach Jim Molinari starts scheduling more games in the Buckeye State. Something about being in Ohio seems to inspire the Huskies...

NIU's "no-names" are rapidly establishing identity. Five unknown underclassmen that fill the paint for the NIU women's basketball team keep coming up with key performances that have opposing coaches turning their heads. Take DePaul's Doug Bruno for example....

The Chick Evans Field House has been the site of many exciting basketball games this season, and fan support by the NIU student body has been a major contributing factor to this. Due to the tremendous rise in attendance this season, NIU students will...

Another Lisa Foss "first-half show" propelled the NIU women's basketball team past the UIC Flames, but it was Denise Lipnisky's 18-footer at the buzzer that iced the celebration. The 915 fans that braved the brisk January temperatures of DeKalb witnessed...