Just more than five minutes into Pat Castillo's second match, the scoreboard symbolized how the NIU wrestling team fared Saturday. The scoreboard read a score of 10 to 8. Normally, that would signal a close match in the third period. The problem is, it...

An unexpected story emerged this semester, as the NIU women's soccer team had the most successful season of all of the fall sports. After an up-and-down, roller-coaster start, NIU finished its last six games with a 5-0-1 record. Overall, the Huskies finished...

The chances of earning a MAC Wrestler of the Week award usually aren't good if you only wrestle in one match during that time. But redshirt sophomore Duke Burk made his only match count, beating Northwestern's eighth-ranked Nick Hayes Friday night in...

NIU redshirt freshman Jake Smith's home wrestling debut couldn't have gone much better. The 197-pound Wyoming transfer outlasted Northwestern junior Carl Howe Friday night to give the Huskies a crucial 3-0 lead, en route to an upset of the fifth-ranked...

NIU redshirt freshman Jake Smith's home wrestling debut couldn't have gone much better. The 197-pound Wyoming transfer outlasted Northwestern junior Carl Howe Friday night to give the Huskies a crucial 3-0 lead, en route to an upset of the fifth-ranked...

It's been the theme of college sports this year. In football, Stanford beat USC and in basketball, Gardner-Webb upset Kentucky. And Friday night, the NIU wrestling team beat fifth-ranked Northwestern 22-19. With a special lighting system brought in to...

Things never seem to get easier for the NIU wrestling team. After facing the first- and third-best teams in the country, the Huskies open up their home schedule today at 7 p.m. against No. 5 Northwestern at Victor E. Court in the annual Showcase Meet....

For the second time in two weeks, the NIU wrestling team squared off against a team in the top five. This Saturday, the Huskies competed in the Rochester Duals in Minnesota and beat Northern Colorado while losing to North Dakota State and No. 1 Minnesota....

This is the time of year when a wrestler gets tested the most. Instead of being able to go home and chow down on Thanksgiving, NIU wrestlers have to lay off the turkey and stuffing so they can make weight at Saturday's Rochester Duals in Minnesota. "It's...

If the first week of the season has proved anything for the NIU wrestling team, it's that youth isn't necessarily a bad thing. After being redshirted last year, freshman Pat McLemore won his first tournament, beating Iowa State's nationally ranked Nick...

As the old saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That's what the NIU wrestling team did as it remained in Ames over the weekend to take part in the 15-team Cyclone Open hosted by Thursday's opponent, Iowa State. Three Huskies reached...

Many Division I programs like to schedule lower division teams to start off the season, hoping to build early confidence. However, that's not what the NIU wrestling team likes to do. They stared off the season by traveling to Ames, Iowa to take on Iowa...