With NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Hammerle’s retirement, the Huskies are left waiting for their new leader. The search for the eighth women’s head coach in modern NIU history will begin immediately, NIU Athletics Director Jim Phillips said,...

Three days after the NIU women’s basketball season was ended, coach Carol Hammerle officially announced her retirement Tuesday. Hammerle was in the final year of her contract after seven seasons in DeKalb and made the decision after a 76-61 loss to...

DeKALB - The 2004-05 NIU men’s basketball season died Monday, March 8, 2005 at the Alumni Arena in Buffalo, New York. It began Monday, Nov. 9, with a 101-51 exhibition victory over the Illinois Institute of Technology and finished with an expected 73-66...

Stephanie Raymond logged countless hours on the basketball court all season for the NIU women’s basketball team. But it didn’t stop there for the sophomore guard. Along with a MAC-high 38.6 minutes per game average, she also spent most of her days...

All season the NIU women’s basketball team’s main goal was to get to Cleveland. The Huskies had their chance to make it happen, but fell 76-61 Saturday at Toledo in the first round of the MAC tournament. The loss marked the third-straight year the...

You won’t hear any complaining from the NIU women’s basketball team about its first-round pairing at Toledo. The No. 11 seed Huskies have played No. 6 Toledo twice this season, and will again meet in their first-round matchup of the MAC tournament...

INDIANAPOLIS - NIU has six of the more than 400 sports teams at the nation’s Division I level that could lose scholarships next year under the NCAA’s new academic standards, according to a report released Monday. Most of the scholarship losses, which...

It’s senior night for the NIU women’s basketball team, but the Huskies will also honor what could be one junior’s final game. Redshirt junior Jamie Wilson will most likely call it quits after this season due to extensive knee injuries suffered in...

It took the play of a veteran starter and an unlikely hero to help the NIU women’s basketball team break its nine-game losing streak. Junior forward Jamie Wilson, who has started every game this season, and senior guard Rachel Sillar, who averages 2.9...

Maybe it was the love of basketball. Maybe it was getting hit in the head by a Dan Marino pass. Whatever it was, Shannon Baugh, first-year NIU women’s basketball assistant coach realized coaching was her true calling. Even though Baugh was rubbing elbows...

The last 21 seconds summed up the frustration of the NIU women’s basketball team. The Huskies led much of the game but fell to Western Michigan 59-56 Wednesday at the Convocation Center after they missed four three-point attempts in the last 21 seconds...

The Convocation Center hasn’t quite been home sweet home for the NIU women’s basketball team this season. The Huskies are 2-9 at home and only one of those wins came in conference play. NIU will hope to break that trend when it hosts Western Michigan...