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The Northern Illinois men's basketball team fell, 63-52, to Buffalo on Saturday afternoon
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 football reigned supreme in the City of DeKalb at least for the day on January 24. Mayor Kris Povlsen at the start of Monday night’s DeKalb city council meeting read a proclamation acknowledging the Northern Illinois University football team on its success during the 2010 season. The Huskies capped off a record-setting football campaign...
Ebony Ellis scored 15 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, and Marke Freeman scored 28 points as the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team defeated Miami (Ohio), 71-64, Sunday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies picked up their second straight win to improve to 8-11 and 2-4 in Mid-American Conference play. Miami (Ohio) lost for the second...
Matt Stainbrook tipped in an offensive rebound with less than a second to play as the Northern Illinois men’s basketball team fell, 82-80, to Western Michigan on Saturday afternoon at University Arena. The Huskies made the initial defensive stop on the play and nearly forced overtime but were unable to keep the 6-foot-9 Stainbrook from...
Senior Marke Freeman scored 30 points and flirted with a triple-double, helping the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team capture a 73-62 win over Ball State, Wednesday at the Convocation Center. Freeman added nine steals and eight rebounds while matching her season high in points. She scored nine points in a row during a 15-0 first...
Northern Illinois senior guard Xavier Silas was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week on Monday following the Huskies pair of victories over Eastern Michigan and Toledo. Silas averaged 25.5 points and 4.5 rebounds to earn his fourth Player of the Week award of the season; he was also named MAC West...
Rod Carey, who has spent nearly all of his 13-year collegiate coaching career in the Midwest, has been named the offensive line coach at Northern Illinois University, NIU head coach Dave Doeren announced Thursday. Carey joins the Huskies after three seasons coaching the offensive line at the University of North Dakota. He completes Northern Illinois’...
Senior guard Xavier Silas scored 31 points, including a career-high-tying six three-pointers, as the Northern Illinois men’s basketball team survived for a 71-69 victory on Tuesday night at Eastern Michigan. The Huskies led by 13 at the intermission and hung on for two-point victory. Junior forward Tim Toler added 11 points and a team-high seven...
Northern Illinois student-athletes have extended the Huskies’ streak of consecutive semesters with a cumulative grade point average above 3.0 to 11 as NIU Athletics’ combined team GPA stands at 3.017 following the Fall 2010 semester, NIU Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Academic Support Services Francine St. Clair announced Monday. The Huskies’ string of consecutive...
Rarely has a team celebrated a Humanitarian Bowl victory as wholeheartedly and with as much joy as the Northern Illinois Huskies celebrated their 40-17 win over Fresno State Saturday in Boise, Idaho. In the final seconds of the win – NIU’s school-record 11th of the season – Gatorade baths were freely given, coaches’ names were...
New Northern Illinois head football coach Dave Doeren announced Wednesday that Tom Matukewicz, who is serving as NIU’s interim head coach for the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, will remain with the Huskies as linebackers coach, the position he has held at the school for the past three seasons. Matukewicz gave the team the news following...
