On Saturday, the Kent State men's basketball team will enter the Convocation Center with 21 straight wins against MAC West opponents.The Golden Flashes' (16-7, 7-2 MAC) streak is bad news for an NIU squad coming off two ugly losses on the road to MAC...
DeKALB | Bowling Green head coach Louis Orr opened Wednesday night's press conference with a prayer. Perhaps it was to give thanks for NIU guard Xavier Silas missing a good look at a game-tying three in overtime. The Huskies lost 73-70 in front of a sparsely-attended...
DeKALB | With NIU's second-leading scorer out in power forward Tim Toler, head coach Ricardo Patton had to find another player to provide the offensive production that was missing."We were looking for someone to be able to come off the bench and help...
DeKALB | Three days after notching its first win against a MAC East opponent since Feb. 2009, the NIU men’s basketball team fell hard at Buffalo 63-52. The Huskies never led against the Bulls on Saturday afternoon. Buffalo (13-6 overall, 5-2 MAC) followed...
A year ago at this time, Aksel Bolin found himself in Norway trying to make a decision between basketball and school. All college-aged members of the Norway national basketball team are expected to choose between studying at a university in-country or...
Prior to Wednesday night's 83-74 win over Akron, the NIU men's basketball team passed around a bucket in the locker room. Each player was to write down an excuse on a slip of paper and throw it in. Without any excuses to call on, the Huskies came out...
Some may see it as odd that Ricardo Patton wants nothing to change about the attitude of a 6-11 team. If Patton has learned one thing about this year's Huskies, it's that they're motivation level is unquestionable. On their most recent road trip, the...
DeKALB | With both NIU basketball teams currently floundering, sports writers Katie Leb and Andrew Singer discuss which team has a better chance to make a late-season run.Katie Leb: Andrew, thank you for agreeing to face off with me this week. I am actually...
A buzzer beating tip-in ended a back-and-forth affair between the NIU and Western Michigan men's basketball teams on Saturday afternoon. NIU held a 16-point lead in the first half, but lost all but six points of the advantage before halftime. WMU caught...
Reality is slowly starting to sink in. Once the NFL playoffs wrap up, students will start to fully appreciate the sports wasteland that DeKalb has become in the matter of a few weeks. Last semester, the entire community banded together to support one...
Xavier Silas' brief tenure as the nation's leading scorer and the addition of NIU quarterback DeMarcus Grady highlighted winter break for the NIU men's basketball team. Silas shot to the top of the nation's Division I scoring list in the Huskies' first...
Pick up any junior college basketball team's roster and Ricardo Patton can find at least a couple stories worth listening to on it. Leading up to the 2010-11 season, two in particular caught the interest of the head men's basketball coach at NIU. A 270-pound...
