Christmas came early for the 1989-90 women's basketball team this week. On Monday the Huskies signed E.C. Hill, one of the top high school guards in the country, and Tuesday it was announced the women cagers were picked to finish first in the North Star...

Impact with a capital "I" is the way NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright described her first NCAA National Letter-of-Intent signee for the 1990's, Yconda "E.C." Hill of Chicago's Whitney Young High School. A Street & Smith's First-Team All-America,...

First-year NIU men's basketball coach Jim Molinari believes he got a two-for-one deal last Thursday with the signing of his first Huskie recruit in Rolling Meadows High School standout Mike Lipnisky. "We have two scholarships to work with, so our goal...

The first page of the 1989-90 women's basketball season opened Tuesday with coach Jane Albright and her team hosting Media Day at Chick Evans Field House. And the first thing that the media was given was the first page of the players' notebooks for the...

The key word for this year's NIU women's basketball season is teamwork. After relying on many individual performances last year because of a small squad, the team has added some depth this season and should really be able to employ the full concept of...

Huskie Basketball is underway at NIU and the women's team is focusing on some lofty goals—mainly an NCAA tournament bid. With Gena Stubbs being the only player gone from last year's 23-7 squad, the Huskies have their nucleus back, including Lisa Foss...

The 1989-90 men's basketball team officially opened practice on Monday with a new outlook and a new head coach. Ex-Depaul assistant Jim Molinari took over the head coaching duties from Jim Rosborough last May and now begins his reign as head Huskie cager....

Former Men's Athletic Director Robert Brigham heads a list of seven to be inducted into the NIU Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 6. Brigham, who now serves as special assistant to the president for intercollegiate athletics, lettered in football three times...

The results of NIU's three-year promotions package with Coors Light can now be seen in store windows and on counters throughout DeKalb. NIU's new Coors Light football poster, the first of several promotional items produced in conjuction with the beer...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright has completed her 1989-90 coaching staff with the hiring of Sandra J. Schuster as a part-time assistant. Schuster, a 10-year girls basketball coach at Cobden Unit School in southern Illinois, taught science and...

NIU President John LaTourette Tuesday named Raymond J. Dembinski the chairman of the NIU Athletic Board. Dembinski, a professor of special education, will take over the spot beginning August 15 and will succeed James Mellard, who has served as the board's...

Before NIU and Akron can win their first Association of Mid-Continent Universities title, they will have to battle a Bear. The Bears of Southwest Missouri State have become the AMCU's conference power, winning the league's all-sport trophy the past three...