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OXFORD, Ohio – The Northern Illinois men’s basketball team fell 84-72 on Wednesday night at Miami (Ohio). The RedHawks led by six at the half and used a 14-0 run early in the second stanza to build a lead that was too much for the Huskies to overcome. Senior guard Xavier Silas scored a team-high...
Brad Dieckhaus
NIU head coach Dave Grant couldn’t have scripted his final home regular season match at NIU any better Friday night as the Huskies posted a 21-18 win over Eastern Michigan in Victor E. Court on Senior Night.  The victory, the first Mid-American Conference win for the Huskies (3-10, 1-4) this season, was Grant’s final home match...
NIU Huskies wrestling
The Northern Illinois University wrestling team returns home to face Mid-American Conference rival Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. today, Friday, Feb. 4, at Victor E. Court in the Convocation Center. Tonight’s match against the Eagles is Senior Night for NIU’s six departing seniors: Vince Castillo (Western Springs, Ill./Lyons Township), Tristen DeShazer (Wichita, Kan./Wichita West), Bryan Deutsch...
Eric Luzzi
Northern Illinois men’s soccer coach Eric Luzzi signed seven players to join the Huskies next year, including five U.S. Soccer Development Academy participants and four all-state honorees, he announced Friday. “All seven of these guys fit the mold of what we want in our program,” Luzzi said. “They are winners, they will embrace the demands...
Marke Freeman
The Northern Illinois women’sbasketball team dropped a heartbreaker to Bowling Green, 67-64, Tuesday night in Mid-American Conference play at the NIU Convocation Center. Senior guard Marke Freeman posted a game-high 26 points, adding seven rebounds. TheFalcons improved to 18-4, 6-3 in league play while the Huskies fell to 9-13, 3-6. “I am very happywith my...
Northern Illinois Alumni Days for the Huskie men’s and women’s basketball teams are set for February, welcoming former NIU basketball players back to DeKalb, head coaches Ricardo Patton and Kathi Bennett have announced. The men’s Alumni Day is also the Huskies’ ESPNU Bracketbusters game at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19. NIU alumni will face off...
Xavier Silas
Northern Illinois senior guard Xavier Silas was named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week for his performances last week against Akron and Buffalo. Silas averaged 29.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in the two games. This is the fifth time Silas has earned MAC West Player of the Week honors this season, he was...
Rebecca Cronin
The Northern Illinois track and field squad continued a stellar 2011 indoor season Saturday as the Huskies broke two school records and recorded five first-place titles at the IWU Invitational hosted by Indiana Wesleyan in Marion, Ind. “Our ladies showed a lot of heart today,” said NIU head track and field coach Connie Teaberry. “The...
Nate Rucker
The Northern Illinois men's basketball team fell, 63-52, to Buffalo on Saturday afternoon
Huskies huddle
Marke Freeman scored 23 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds, helping the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team defeat Ohio, 56-48, Saturday.
NIU women's tennis
“Let’s make today a great day.” Five simple words, a philosophy that Northern Illinois women’s tennis head coach Ryun Ferrell is using this season to ensure that his players perform their best when it counts, and it begins to count Saturday, Jan. 29, as the Huskies open up the 2011 season in Milwaukee, Wis., against UW-Milwaukee. Now...
Richard McNutt
Richard McNutt, who has coached defensive backs at two Mid-American Conference schools, has joined Dave Doeren’s staff at Northern Illinois and will coach the Huskie cornerbacks. McNutt fills the final assistant coaching spot on the NIU football staff for 2011. A former cornerback for Ohio State, McNutt has spent his entire career coaching defensive backs,...
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