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The Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team rallied from a 14-point second half deficit to defeat Kent State, 50-49, on Wednesday night at the M.A.C. Center. Senior Aksel Bolin (Asker, Norway/Asker) scored a game-high 14 points and sophomore Travon Baker (Detroit, Mich./Detroit Consortium) scored 11, including two free throws with five seconds to play to...

The Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team trailed Buffalo by just two with eight minutes to play, but the Bulls scored seven of the next eight points in the contest and went on to a 75-67 victory on Saturday afternoon at the NIU Convocation Center. Senior Aksel Bolin (Asker, Norway/Asker) scored a season-high 17 points...

Four Huskies scored in double figures Wednesday night, led by a career-high tying 17 points from sophomore Travon Baker (Detroit, Mich./Detroit Consortium), but the NIU men’s basketball team fell to Toledo, 77-68, at Savage Arena. The Rockets shot 50 percent (25-of-50) from the field. Sophomore Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) added 16 points, redshirt...

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...

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...

Freshman guard Dontel Highsmith (Dowagiac, Mich./Dowagiac) scored a career-high 27 points Sunday afternoon as the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team defeated UC Riverside, 71-64, at the SRC Arena. Highsmith went 9-of-11 from the field, including 3-of-5 from behind the three-point arc, and 6-of-6 from the line. Sophomore guard Travon Baker (Detroit, Mich./Detroit Consortium) added...

The 22nd-ranked UMass Minutemen shot 57 percent in the second half and outscored the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team, 36-19, in the final 14 minutes Saturday afternoon en route to an 80-56 victory over the Huskies at the Mullins Center. Freshman guard Dontel Highsmith (Dowagiac, Mich./Dowagiac) scored 10 points to lead NIU. UMass shot...

Tied with four minutes to play, the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team scored 10 of the final 13 points to earn a 64-57 victory over Dartmouth on Thursday night at the NIU Convocation Center. Sophomore wing Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) scored a team-high 12 points, junior center Jordan Threloff (DeKalb, Ill./DeKalb/Illinois State)...

Junior Jordan Threloff (DeKalb, Ill./DeKalb/Illinois State) of the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team was named the Mid-American Conference’s Male Scholar-Athlete of the Week, the league announced today. The award is voted on by a select group of faculty athletic representatives from the conference’s member institutions. Threloff, a sociology major with a 4.0 GPA, averaged...

Redshirt junior center Jordan Threloff (DeKalb, Ill./DeKalb/Illinois State) scored a career-high 17 points and sophomore guard Daveon Balls (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North) added a career-best 15, both from off the bench, as the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team defeated San Jose State, 60-59, on Saturday night in the NIU Invitational at the NIU Convocation Center....

The Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team led for 38 minutes, but Nebraska Omaha used 84 percent free throw shooting to slip past the Huskies, 68-66, on Friday night at the NIU Convocation Center. Sophomore wing Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) scored a team-high 16 points to lead the Huskies. Sophomore guard Daveon Balls...

Five players scored in double figures as the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team earned a 90-57 exhibition victory over Rockford University on Saturday evening at the NIU Convocation Center. Redshirt junior Jordan Threloff (DeKalb, Ill./DeKalb/Illinois State) scored 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds off the bench to pace the Huskies. Redshirt junior Pete Rakocevic...