Intramural Sports held its 5-on-5 basketball tournament Thursday night at the Campus Recreation Center. There were three different divisions playing for championships: Highly Competitive, Competitive and Women’s conferences. The first game played was...

To win basketball games you must score points. To score points you must control the basketball. The NIU women’s basketball team has recorded 105 turnovers in only four games and heads to Champaign with a three-game losing streak in tow when they take...

Costly turnovers have been the story of the young season for the NIU women’s basketball team. NIU started an eight-game road trip with a pair of defeats from in-state rivals. Tuesday, Western Illinois (2-0) extended its home-court winning streak to...

A homemade meal and a 7 p.m. game against Western Illinois await the NIU women’s basketball team for its first road game of the season tonight. Off the court, sophomore guard Whitney Lowe, who lives in close proximity to Macomb, will host a dinner....

The NIU women’s basketball team split a pair of games at the Convocation Center this weekend. A 67-62 win over North Dakota State opened the regular season Friday, followed by a 73-67 overtime loss Sunday to Wisconsin-Green Bay. UWGB never trailed in...

This time it counts. The NIU women’s basketball team opens its regular season tonight at the Convocation Center against North Dakota State at 7:05. p.m. Led by Stephanie Raymond, NIU rolled through an undefeated exhibition season. Despite a preseason...

I remember going to football games during my freshman year with 25,000-plus screaming fans at just about every game. The energy, excitement and noise of those games can’t even be described with words. When football season came to a close I was disappointed...

The NIU women’s basketball team closed the exhibition portion of its schedule with a convincing 83-63 victory over Saint Xavier University Friday night at the Convocation Center. NIU shot 52 percent from the field, and an even more effective 60 percent...

In its last chance to work out any last-minute kinks, the NIU women’s basketball team hosts St. Xavier University today at 7:05 p.m. at the Convocation Center in its final exhibition game. NIU coach Carol Owens wants NIU to continue to close out games...

The NIU women's basketball team coasted to an 81-50 victory in the exhibition season opener against Lewis at the Convocation Center. NIU shook off a sluggish first half, with a 23-3 run to start the second half. An aggressive defensive effort, and 18...

In 1985, when the science-fiction comedy "Back to the Future" hit the big screen, teenaged Michael J. Fox drove a DeLorean back in time to forever change the loser status of his McFly family. The Bears were led by Mike Ditka, and were in the midst of...

Don’t tell NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson the Sporting News and Street and Smith’s college basketball previews picked his squad to win the MAC West. "The only place I saw us ranked high was in Field and Stream," Judson said in jest. "As a...