Northern Illinois University is the best kept secret in the Midwest. If that sounds familiar it's probably because every NIU coach and athletic department administrator has said that at one time or another. Now we know why. The Huskies are getting virtually...

Tonight's NIU women's basketball game will be a matchup between quality and quantity. A fully-rostered but young Valparaiso team crosses the border into Illinois to take on a shallow-benched but powerful Huskie team tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Chick Evans...

For the NIU women's basketball team, Saturday night's 97-85 win over Illinois-Chicago was just another average night of work. A crowd of 908 fans at Chick Evans Field House watched as the Huskies methodically took apart another North Star Conference foe....

No Retreat...No Surrender... Those were the words written on the back of the DePaul sweat tops, but when the game went into trenches during overtime, NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright and her players had the Blue Demons waving the white flag....

By downing arch-rival DePaul 86-82 Thursday night, the NIU women's basketball team took the first step in its drive toward winning a North Star Conference championship. And while leading scorer Carol Owens netted a career-high 34 points to pace the Huskies,...

The Chicago Bears vs. the Green Bay Packers, Army Vs. Navy, Navratilova vs. Evert—NIU Vs. DePaul? Maybe the latter match up cannot be found among the premiere rivalries in sports, but the NIU women's basketball team is looking to stage a classic battle...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright is not one to gloat over success, but one has to wonder if she is wearing a smile on the inside. Since the Huskies' 78-71 loss to Nevada-Las Vegas on Dec. 10, Albright and her crew have exorcised the word "lose"...

Talk about bright lights and big cities. The NIU women's basketball team will be making its holiday tour in some of the United States' most popular cities. Teams from all over the country—from Las Vegas to New Orleans to Champaign to Akron to Cleveland—will...

North Star Conference Player of the Week honors went to NIU's Carol Owens. The 6-foot-3 Huskie cager was tabbed as the league's standout player following a week in which she scored 77 points, grabbed 33 rebounds, blocked four shots, made 19 steals and...

Tuesday night's NIU women's basketball game lasted the regulation 40 minutes, but the last 41 seconds decided who would wear the crown—and it wasn't the Huskies. Head coach Jane Albright and her troops traveled to Evanston, Ill., only to fall 83-78...

When the NIU women's basketball team takes on Northwestern tonight in Evanston, it will try to establish one thing—tempo. In a battle between teams with the opposite offensive philosophies, how much success the Huskies have might be determined by how...

There is only one word that can describe the reaction of the NIU women's basketball team after Sunday's 78-72 upset over nationally ranked North Carolina State—euphoric. The victory enabled the Huskies (3-1) to capture blue-ribbon honors in the 6th...