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Kent State hit a 30-foot triple in the final minute of regulation and went on to earn a 73-64 over the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team on Wednesday night at the NIU Convocation Center. Junior Aaron Armstead (Chicago, Ill./Hales Franciscan/San Jose City College) recorded his first career double-double with a team-high 15 points and...

Northern Illinois went toe-to-toe with Central Michigan, the defending Mid-American Conference champion, for a full 40 minutes at McGuirk Arena Wednesday night. While the Huskies (6-8, 2-2 MAC) disrupted the Chippewas’ (8-8, 4-0 MAC) high-powered offense in the game, it was CMU’s Crystal Bradford who would come up big as she scored 27 points and...

Junior Amanda Corral has been named Scholar-Athlete of the Week by the Mid-American Conference. Corral, a health science/pre-physical therapy major, receives the honor for the third time in her career. The Huskie guard has a 4.0 GPA in the program, and she was outstanding in two games for the Huskies over the previous week, averaging...

Trailing by one with three minutes to play, the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team outscored Bowling Green 11-1 down the stretch to earn a 45-36 victory on Sunday afternoon at the Stroh Center. Sophomore guard Travon Baker (Detroit, Mich./Detroit Consortium) scored a game-high 13 points, including six in the final two minutes of the...

Northern Illinois led Eastern Michigan from start to finish Sunday as the Huskies defeated the Eagles, 77-54. Huskie Amanda Corral (Hobart, Ind./Hobart) led her team with a career-high scoring effort, finishing the game with 30 points, six rebounds and four assists. NIU (5-7, 2-1 MAC) earned its first victory over EMU (11-3, 1-2 MAC) since...

Down by 17 with over nine minutes left to play in the second half, the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team had a chance to tie it up in the dying seconds of the match as redshirt junior Danny Pulliam (Indianapolis, Ind./Pike) attempted a game tying layup, down 73-71. The ball swirled around the right side...

Buffalo scored the opening 16 points of the contest and went on to claim a 67-46 victory over Northern Illinois men’s basketball team Wednesday night in the Mid-American Conference opener for both teams at Alumni Arena. Sophomore wing Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) scored a team-high 13 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds...

Earning its first Mid-American Conference opening day win since January 2009, Northern Illinois dominated its way to victory against Ohio at the Convocation Center, 73-51. The Huskies (5-6, 1-0 MAC) shot 53.1 percent (26-for-49) from the field Saturday and made 73.3 percent of their shots from the free throw line (22-for-30). In addition, five different...

Freshman guard Aaric Armstead (Chicago, Ill./La Jolla Prep) scored a career-best 11 points, sophomore wing Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) had 11 points and junior guard Aaron Armstead (Chicago, Ill./Hales Franciscan/San Jose City College) added 10 as the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team closed non-conference play with a 65-51 victory over Bethune-Cookman on...

No. 13-ranked Iowa State shot 58.7 percent (37-of-63) from the field and made 11 three-pointers en route to a 99-63 victory over the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team on Tuesday night at Hilton Coliseum. Freshman guard Dontel Highsmith (Dowagiac, Mich./Dowagiac) scored a game-high 19 points and also grabbed six rebounds. Sophomore guard Travon Baker...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team shot a respectable 42 percent from the field (23-for-54) Tuesday,  4 percent better than the visiting Illinois-Chicago. But UIC (10-2) was an impressive 27-of-31 (.871) from the free throw line, compared to NIU’s 7-of-10 (.700) effort, lifting the Flames to a 66-54 defeat of the Huskies. Northern Illinois (4-6)...

Northern Illinois University freshman guard Dontel Highsmith was named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week Tuesday. Highsmith, a native of Dowagiac, Mich., averaged 18.5 points and 3.0 rebounds last week, helping the Huskies to a pair of road victories at Loyola-Chicago (Dec. 18) and UC Riverside (Dec. 22). Last Wednesday at Loyola-Chicago, Highsmith scored...