Picture a sea of orange-clad, jumping fans in an arena so packed that the screaming students can’t even hear themselves. Now picture a near-empty Convocation Center for NIU’s basketball games. Quite a contrast, but one NIU men’s basketball coach...

The NIU women’s basketball team shot the ball better and turned it over less than Ohio, but the Huskies still couldn’t get over the hump. The Huskies fell 71-64 at Ohio on Saturday, which brought their losing streak to a season-high eight games, despite...

Success is something that Kristin Wiener became accustomed to in high school. The sophomore forward led the Academy of Holy Angels to a league title her junior season, and lettered all four years in basketball as well as volleyball. Wiener also helped...

Every time the NIU women’s basketball team made a run, Toledo forward Danielle Bishop was there to stop it. The Huskies led early, but couldn’t hold off the Rockets in a 64-55 loss on Wednesday at the Convocation Center. Bishop scored eight points...

Stephanie Raymond leads the NIU women’s basketball team in points, rebounds, steals and assists. And when the sophomore guard isn’t playing in a Huskie uniform, she’s probably playing basketball somewhere else, like the Campus Recreation Center...

Since their first meeting, the NIU and Toledo women’s basketball teams have gone two completely different directions. The Huskies beat the Rockets 63-60 on Jan. 11 to put their conference record at 2-0, but have gone 1-8 since. Toledo, on the other...

The NIU men’s tennis team should think twice next year when scheduling matches outside Illinois. Over the weekend the Huskies defeated a pair of Illinois schools to improve their record against in-state opponents to 4-0 on the season. On Friday, the...

If college basketball games ended after one half, the NIU women’s basketball team would be 7-4 in MAC play. Unfortunately for the Huskies, there are two halves. And despite having two players score more than 20 points, the Huskies squandered another...

The NIU women’s basketball team has squandered a halftime lead five times since MAC play began. The Huskies will try to put two good halves together when they take on Miami (Ohio) at 2:05 p.m. Saturday at the Convocation Center. "First of all it’s...

For the second straight game, the NIU women’s basketball team held a four-point lead at halftime. And for the second straight game, the Huskies blew that first-half lead. The Huskies (6-15 overall, 3-7 MAC) dropped their fifth straight game Wednesday...

After a 2-0 start in MAC play, the schedule has been unkind to the NIU women’s basketball team. The Huskies have dropped six of their last seven games and now must travel to Kent State for a 6 p.m. game today. The Golden Flashes have won five of their...

Now that NIU is officially a football powerhouse, we should all forget about our basketball teams, right? Besides, it’s February - the new season is only seven short months away and we have a new batch of recruits and a matchup with Michigan to talk...