There is no practice situation that could put NIU's women's basketball team in the position they were in Sunday. With 49 seconds left on the clock of the championship game of the Fifth Annual Fastbreak Fest, the Huskies were down 74-73 to Iowa, the sixth-ranked...

Being that it's early December, it's beginning to look a lot like ... NCAA basketball tournament time. And, according to NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright, the best women's tourney in the nation will take place right here in DeKalb, this weekend....

NIU's women basketball players aren't getting much rest these days. The Huskies head into their second home game in three days as they take on the South Carolina Lady Gamecocks at 7:30 p.m. at Chick Evans Field House. The women cagers enter tonight's...

The North Star Conference will survive despite the loss of Notre Dame and Dayton next year. That is the consensus of NIU Women's Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones, volleyball coach Herb Summers and women's basketball coach Jane Albright. While all...

Ohio State's women's basketball team, ranked 10th in the nation by Sports Illustrated and 11th by the Associated Press, will invade Chick Evans Field House tonight to take on the Huskies in a 7:30 p.m. contest. Not only are the Huskies excited because...

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...

Jane Albright has worked blue-collar hours to put the pieces in place. On Nov. 28, she'll find out how her NIU women's basketball team fits in the 1987-88 season. She lost point guard Val Leitzen. Albright went to Minnesota and bagged Denise Dove. Forward...

Challenging might be the way to best describe the 1987-88 NIU women's basketball schedule. The Huskies are not just playing mediocre teams to improve last season's 11-16 record. Second-ranked Tennessee, fourth-ranked California-Long Beach and 10th-ranked...

Scheduling philosophies, the budget and the admissions for gymnastic events were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the monthly board meeting. At the request of the new scheduling subcommittee, Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones submitted scheduling...

GLEN ELLYN _The running game defeated the half-court offense Monday night in the NIU women's basketball Cardinal-White intrasquad scrimmage at Glenbard West High School. The Cardinal team exploded in the second half to win 80-57 after leading 26-22 at...

Len Bias chose to celebrate, as any person would, when he was picked as a first-round draft choice for the World Champion Boston Celtics in June of 1986. Unfortunately for Bias, that one moment of glory is all he will ever receive as he was found dead...

With 24 days before its first game, the women's basketball team is going full force in practices. While opening day seems far away, it is actually right around the corner for the Huskies, and coach Jane Albright said she wants her team to be consistent....