During the NIU women's basketball team's eight-game winning streak, coach Jane Albright-Dieterle had spoken of how her team was growing as a unit. Tuesday night, the 24th-ranked Huskies were given a big clue as to how much more growing needs to be accomplished...

Last November's "Super Tuesday" carried Bill Clinton all the way to the top, as in the White house. Last Tuesday's NIU upset of then-No. 21 De Paul carried the Huskies all the way to the top, as in this week's Associated Press' Top 25 poll at No. 24....

Tuesday night, big, bad DePaul tried with all its might to intimidate underdog NIU. When Rita Hale and Blue Demons' boss Doug Bruno pulled the last straw of their physical tactics midway through the second half, it was a knowledgeable group of Huskies...

It's wait until next year for the women to get their fair shake in intercollegiate athletics. With gender equity promised to be the talk of the 1994 NCAA Convention, this year's gathering of university presidents and athletic directors didn't provide...

Leave it to the general to spark her troops. After a first half in which NIU's women's basketball team turned the ball over 12 times, shot just 41 percent (14-34) from the field and found itself in a 41-41 draw, Jane Albright-Dieterle may have given her...

Generally, "stretch run" refers to that season-ending point of the schedule where teams lay it on the line in their quest for a championship. For the NIU women's basketball team, the "run" comes a little sooner, as the Huskies begin a "stretch" tonight...

Shades of 1989-90? Based on what's happened in the first quarter of this year's schedule, the NIU women's basketball team is beginning to offer some semblance of that magical season in which the Huskies finished 26-5 and led the nation in scoring. Entering...

MILWAUKEE—While the rest of us were traveling home for Thanksgiving last Wednesday, NIU's women's basketball was hard at work as the Huskies posted a 77-51 exhibition win over Snitz Manufacturing, an AAU team, at Wisconsin Lutheran College. "I felt...

NIU's women's basketball team will be praying for more rebounds at the Thanksgiving table because Angela Lockett, last year's rebounding queen, is officially out for the season following reconstructive surgery on her left knee. Lockett, who tore her anterior...

It was the Cindy Conner show in the first half. Then it was the E.C. Hill show in the second half with numerous guest appearances sprinkled in as the NIU women's basketball team opened the 1992-93 season with an 88-72 victory over Slovan Bratislava of...

Let ‘em run. Wednesday night, NIU's women's basketball team was running a week's worth of ‘suicides.' But it had nothing to do with an uneventful practice. Rather, the Huskies were treated to a dose of the go-at-your-own-risk international game, which...

Even though tonight's game against Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia is only an exhibition, the NIU women's basketball team will still be going all out. "We'll definitely be looking to win," NIU women's head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle said. Albright-Dieterle...