It's official. The NIU women's basketball team has reached its first long-term goal of the season by clinching first place in the North Star Conference. NIU pushed its record to 22-4 and 11-0 in the conference after beating up NSC foe Illinois-Chicago...

Losing by 58 points is no laughing matter, just ask the UIC team. But losing three seniors from a Top 25 team isn't all that great either. Even though Sunday's game at Chick Evans Field House wasn't the last home game for the NIU women's basketball team,...

If Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell were a comedian, his sense of timing wouldn't get him a ticket out of First City, let alone a gig at Second City. There are no good times to announce the impending elimination of a sport, but on the scale of better...

As the NIU women's basketball season winds down, its fan's enthusiasm seems to be on the rise. Not only has the average turnout increased over the past few years, but a new Illinois women's collegiate attendance record of 6,118 fans was set at NIU in...

Talk about intensity drop. The NIU women's basketball team squares off with the Crusaders of Valparaiso tonight (7 p.m.) at Chick Evans Field House hoping to extend its unbeaten string in the North Star Conference to 10 games. Yet, there is a big difference...

"Bring the record home" branched into "Turn the students away" Thursday night at Chick Evans Field House when more than 1,000 NIU students were unable to get into the sold-out game. In an attempt to break the Illinois women's collegiate basketball attendance...

Breathtaking may be the most accurate word to describe the momentous event that happened Thursday night at Chick Evans Field House. Just ask the 6,118 chanting fans that attended the NIU women's basketball battle with its conference rivals DePaul University....

Huskie coach Jim Molinari has billed this weeks' basketball action as "the battle of Chicago". The University of Illinois-Chicago Flames come into Chick Evans Field House tonight at 7:00 to take on the 12-9 Huskies. DePaul, another visitor from Chicago,...

During the entire 1989-90 season, the NIU women's basketball team has had one major goal on its mind - make it to the NCAA tournament. To complete this mission, the Huskies must successfully battle one of their most challenging North Star Conference foes—the...

Throughout history, women's collegiate basketball has never received much publicity. National attention has always been focused on the mens' teams, while the women sat in the shadow of fame with little recognition. That dominant belief is starting to...

Ideally, college sports may not be best exemplified by the exploits of the student-giants running around on the gridiron and hardwood courts. The dedication and balance between academics and athletics is often best illustrated by the participants in the...

Associated Press yesterday, USA Today today—the NIU women's basketball team finds itself ranked No. 23 in the USA Today's weekly poll. This follows a No. 23 ranking by the AP. The Huskies, 17-4, remain in that spot for the second-consecutive week after...