You need to be ready for the week-in, week-out grind of fast-approaching football playoffs.It isn’t the NFL Playoffs or the College Football Playoff, but it’s the fantasy football playoffs.Getting your fantasy team in playoff shape is an uphill battle...
Men’s basketball cruised past an overmatched Aurora Spartans squad to win its first season opener since 2006.The Huskies (1-0) took down Aurora, 86-56, Saturday at the Convocation Center. Redshirt senior Jordan Threloff said the win sets the tone for...
Men’s basketball will put its new-look offense on display when it opens its regular season Saturday.The Huskies will take on the Aurora Spartans 3 p.m. at the Convocation Center. NIU is coming off a 71-44 preseason win over the Roosevelt Lakers.The...
Men’s basketball comes into this season having completed the biggest turnaround in program history. It went 15-17 and 8-11 in the MAC last season, which was a 10-win improvement from the previous campaign. Now, the Huskies are returning four of their...
Men’s basketball has to go through a solid non-conference slate before MAC play opens up.The Huskies put together a good performance Saturday at the Convocation Center in their 71-44 exhibition win over the Roosevelt Lakers, but there are still quite...
Women’s basketball couldn’t overcome a poor defensive performance in the first half, dropping its exhibition game Saturday.The Huskies fell to the Lewis Flyers, 60-49, at the Convocation Center. Lewis, of Div. II, shot 61.5 percent from field in the...
Women’s soccer’s run in the MAC Tournament hit a brick wall when its offense failed to mount much of a counterattack Friday.The Huskies fell to the defending MAC Tournament champion Western Michigan Broncos, 1-0, in Buffalo, N.Y. It was NIU’s first...
Men’s basketball set the tone early and never looked back in a lopsided win over Roosevelt.The Huskies flattened the Roosevelt Lakers, 71-44, Saturday at the Convocation Center. NIU opened the game with a 17-0 run in the first nine minutes, forcing...
Women’s soccer gets its own Groundhog Day as it gets a chance to redeem its loss in its regular season finale.The Huskies will take on the Western Michigan Broncos for the second time in two weeks, this time in the MAC semifinals 6 p.m. Friday in Buffalo,...
Men’s basketball is going through its final rehearsal before the regular season gets underway.The Huskies will host the Roosevelt Lakers 5 p.m. Saturday at the Convocation Center for an exhibition matchup. The last time the teams met, the Huskies blew...
The Cubs are ready to move on from the Lou Browns who have populated the manager job under Theo Epstein, president of Baseball Operations, and get a major leaguer.Joe Maddon, the former manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, was unveiled as the Cubs’ manager...
A bumpy ride of a weekend ended with women’s soccer securing a trip to the MAC semifinals for the first time since 2007.The Huskies fell to the Western Michigan Broncos, 2-0, in Friday’s regular season finale in Kalamazoo, Mich. The loss placed the...
