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Huskies fall in blowout loss to Boise State in Poinsettia Bowl

By Christopher Loggins | December 23, 2015

Football (8-6, 6-2 MAC) ended its season with a 55-7 loss to Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl on Wednesday. Boise State got the game started quickly, outscoring the Huskies 21-0 in the first quarter. Junior receiver Aregeros Turner returned a kick-off...

Huskies to play Boise State in Poinsettia Bowl

By Northern Star staff | December 6, 2015

Football (8-5. 6-3 MAC) will face off against Boise State (8-4, 5-3 MWC) in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 23 after losing to Bowling Green in the MAC Championship on Friday.The Huskies have now made it to eight consecutive bowl games, a record for NIU and...

Coach Rod Carey at the Sept. 6 game against Northwestern University.

NIU football’s Rod Carey set to get $70,000 in bonuses for MAC Championship win, bowl appearance and more

By Frank Gogola | December 10, 2014

Football head coach Rod Carey is in line to receive bonuses in the sum of $70,000 for the Huskies’ performance on and off the field.Carey is scheduled to make a base salary of $400,000 for the period beginning Jan. 1, 2014, and will get bonuses worth...

Football draws Marshall in inaugural Boca Raton Bowl

By Frank Gogola | December 7, 2014

Football will take on the Marshall Thundering Herd in the first Boca Raton Bowl in a matchup of conference champions and former conference rivals.The MAC champion Huskies (11-2) and the Conference USA champion Thundering Herd (12-1) will meet 5 p.m. Dec....

President John Peters, leadership donors Dennis and Kimberly Yordon and Kenneth and Ellen Chessick, representatives of the Board of Trustees, and Athletic Director Jeff Compher break ground Saturday morning for the new Dr. Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center on the north side of Huskie Stadium.

NIU breaks ground on Chessick Practice Center

By James Cantagallo | April 22, 2012

Several hundred NIU alumni, athletes, donors and fans gathered for the ceremonial ground breaking for the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center (CPC) Saturday. The ceremony was held at the future site of the CPC across from the Jeffery and Kimberly...

Softball ready for Missouri Tournament

By Eli Gehn | March 7, 2012

NIU softball will hit the road again this weekend when it travels to the Missouri Tournament. The Huskies (5-7) will take on Alcorn State and Boise State Saturday before playing Boise State again and Missouri Sunday. “We’re working a lot on approaching...

Meghan Connell, Northern Star File Photo- NIU's Antone Christian
pushes off Eastern Illinois' L.C. Doss to make a play in a game
earlier this season.

Huskies fall to Brocos Saturday

By Brian Thomas | November 27, 2011

Still looking for its first win of the season, NIU men's basketball journeyed west to Idaho to take on Boise State Saturday. To the Huskies' (0-5) dismay, they fell to the Broncos 71-57, dropping their fifth game in a row.Boise State red shirt junior...

Boise State Broncos kicked NIU Huskies to the curb in men’s basketball

By Andrew Singer | November 30, 2010

DeKALB | Without much of a fight, the NIU men's basketball team fell 80-51 to Boise State Monday evening. The Broncos smothered NIU (2-3) with a pressure defense that produced a 26-6 BSU (6-0) run to end the first half. Starting point guard Bryan Hall...

RANT: TCU bucks Broncos

By Chris Dertz | November 29, 2010

Boise State has just pooped its proverbial brick. The Broncos are headed to a conference where no good teams will remain, when Boise State moves to the Mountain West Conference. Only problem is that TCU, Utah and BYU, or the best teams in the conference,...

Xavier Silas goes up for two of game-high 34 points Sunday night against Cardinal Stritch.

Silas scores 34 in men’s basketball hoops win

By Andrew Singer | November 28, 2010

Hitting the road one day before Thanksgiving, the NIU men's basketball team took an 86-80 decision from Maryland Eastern Shore on Wednesday. Aided by senior Xavier Silas' 34-point showing, the Huskies (2-2) kept UMES at an arms' length throughout the...

Boise State fans Gretchen and Dan Simpson, from Tucson, Ariz., cheer during an NCAA college football game against New Mexico State, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/Victor Calzada)

RANT: Boise State likely to be left out by BCS again

By Chris Dertz | October 4, 2010

It must be extremely displeasing to be a Boise State fan. After beating Stanford, Oregon jumped the Broncos to move to No. 3 in the nation. Even if Boise goes undefeated and Oregon loses, the message here is clear: No mid-major football program will ever...