NIU students who plan on attending men's or women's basketball games this season face a new ticket pick-up policy. The new policy, approved by the NIU Athletic Board at yesterday's monthly gathering, allows students to pick up tickets for an entire week's...

For the long haul, Dianna Wingis has bulked up. Wingis, a junior forward on NIU's women's basketball team, averaged 5.5 points and 5.8 rebounds a game last season and started 11 of the Huskies' 35 contests. The Hammond, Ind. native's job last year was...

"All I wanted was to get back to safe ground again and have a long rest,"—Sir Edmund Hillary, 1955. Hillary said those words in his book High Adventure. It was his first reaction after scaling a mountain. NIU's women's basketball team may share the...

They're back. The Whitney Young High School connection will be making its presence full-time this year for the NIU women's basketball team. For the first time in two years, Cindy Conner and E.C. Hill will be on the same court in an official basketball...

The heat is on E.C. Hill, but she remains collected. She has never played in an official college basketball game, yet her coach, NIU's women's basketball head boss Jane Albright-Dieterle, said she will be the main attraction—a leader relied on to score...

The experience of the Australian National women's basketball team showed, and consequently, the mistakes piled up for NIU Sunday. For Huskie head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, the Australians simply came in and stole everything away in their 93-67 victory...

Her position on the court may have changed, but the impact of one Denise Dove is even more advantageous to the NIU women's basketball team. The playmaking extraordinaire may have used up her four years of player eligibility, but she is back in the NIU...

If the Australian National women's basketball team's coach Robbee Cadee needs someone to vouch that his team deserves to be in the 1992 Summer Olympics, he should contact DeKalb. "They're wanting to qualify for the Olympics," NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle...

NIU's women's basketball season starts on Sunday at 2 p.m., and immediately the Huskies' valor will be tested. Coming to the Chick Evans Field House for an exhibition game will be the Australian National Team, a group that beat Vanderbilt University Nov....

NIU women's basketball head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle did everything coaches are supposed to do at their teams' preseason media luncheon, and then some. At the Chick Evans Field House Wednesday, she talked about her players individually, team expectations...

As the North Star Conference heads into its final year, there is talk of optimism among its seven coaches. The conference held its last preseason luncheon here Tuesday, and the members are ready to make some noise before making the transition to the Mid-Continent...

Soyini Chism has her fingers crossed. The 6-0 sophomore has been on the NIU women's basketball team's roster for the last two seasons, but she has yet to see much time on the court. Chism tore her right anterior cruciate ligament in practice in 1989 and...