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James McCarter | Northern Star Sophomore Forward Keith Gray for Northern Illinois University goes up for a layup during the Huskies game against Akron.

NIU falls to Akon 53-68

By Jacob Onak | January 13, 2013

Coming off a big road MAC-opener win against Miami of Ohio, the men’s basketball team (3-11, 1-1 MAC) turned its focus to the Akron Zips (11-4, 2-0 MAC) in its MAC home opener. The Huskies put themselves in a hole early and, despite their second-half...

Men’s basketball focuses on defense, falls to Loyola

By Matt Hopkinson | November 25, 2012

NIU men’s basketball played a low-scoring defense-oriented contest against Loyola University and came out on the wrong side of the ledger Saturday. The Huskies (1-3) did a lot of things right in order to win the game, but Loyola (4-2) rode its hot hands...

Baker added to men’s basketball’s ’12 recruiting class

By Northern Star Staff | April 15, 2012

Mark Montgomery nabbed the fifth member of his 2012-13 recruiting class. The NIU men’s basketball coach announced Thursday Travon Baker of Detroit Consortium signed his letter of intent to join the program. “We are excited to have Travon join us and...