The NIU women’s basketball team started Winter Break with a loss and finished with a pair of MAC defeats as it fell below .500 on the season. The Huskies (5-8 overall, 0-2 MAC) lost six of the eight games they played over Winter Break. Southeast Missouri...

NIU freshman Kristin Wiener has her work cut out for her this weekend when the Huskies (2-2) take on Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3-3) at 2:05 p.m. Saturday at the Convocation Center. The 6-foot-2 center has earned a spot in the starting lineup, but will have...

Last season, then-ranked No. 4 Kansas State women’s basketball team came to DeKalb and narrowly escaped with a win. The Huskies played well before falling five points short of upsetting one of the nation’s best teams. Today, the Huskies (2-1) take...

NIU sophomore Jamie Wilson knew it felt the same. The 6-foot-1 center thought it was the same, but prayed it wasn’t. As it turned out, Wilson knew the feeling of tearing her anterior cruciate ligament all too well. After a year of rehab from partially...

NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Hammerle was worried her team would come out flat after beating Wisconsin on Nov. 23. Her worries came true as the Huskies lost 61-56 to Western Illinois on Saturday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies (2-1) were...

NIU point guard Monique Davis did it again to the University of Wisconsin as the NIU women’s basketball team improved to 2-0 on the season after winning in Madison 68-65 on Sunday. The Huskies won their home opener on Friday night 77-60 against Loyola....

When NIU’s Jamie Wilson went down with a knee injury with 8:24 remaining in the first half, things did not look good for the Huskies. Trailing Loyola by 11 in the women’s basketball season opener on Friday night, NIU was now without its starting center,...

Freshman accounting major Ryan Shaughnessy dove to the floor trying to save an errant pass from one of his teammates during basketball practice Wednesday. He wasn’t going all out for NIU men’s basketball coach Rob Judson. He was helping prepare the...

The NIU women’s basketball team will begin its regular season with a 7:05 p.m. home match today against Loyola. “I think we’ll see a great deal of intensity,” coach Carol Hammerle said. “I’m going to do my best to get a good rotation going...

Two signings have NIU women’s basketball coach Carole Hammerle excited. The Huskies inked 6-foot-1 forward Nikita Odom and 6-foot point guard Whitney Lowe to National Letters of Intent. “These two players are going to make an immediate impact on the...

he NIU women’s basketball team finished the preseason undefeated with an 83-49 win over the Odyssey Club on Saturday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies began the game with a 12-0 run and never looked back. Senior forward Lindsay Secrest led NIU...

NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Hammerle told each of her players to focus on one thing to improve in Saturday’s exhibition finale against the Odyssey Club at 2 p.m. at the Convocation Center. “If every player can make one adjustment and get...