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The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team will participate in the 2012 Preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), an annual tournament consisting of 16 of the country’s best Division I teams determined by select criteria. Tuesday’s bracket announcement from the Preseason WNIT, which will be held Nov. 9 to 18, has the Huskies facing the Iowa...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team has hired former player Debbie (Teske) Whitman as director of basketball operations, head coach Kathi Bennett has announced. Bennett and Co. could not be more thrilled to have Whitman on staff as she was a part of a prosperous run for the NIU women’s basketball program from 1990-93 that...

Northern Illinois University women’s basketball assistant coach Joe Conroy was promoted to associate head coach, NIU head coach Kathi Bennett announced Friday. “I’m very happy for Joe,” Bennett said. “There isn’t anyone who works harder and Coach Conroy is very deserving. He has been my right-hand man since I’ve been here.” “Having the opportunity to...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball program added longtime assistant coach Kevin McManaman to its coaching staff, NIU head coach Kathi Bennett announced Thursday. A veteran in the coaching industry, McManaman has 17 years under his belt as an assistant coach, while also serving as director of Basketball Operations (DOBO) and associate athletic director during his...

Football senior Chandler Harnish and volleyball senior Kristin Hoffman were named Northern Illinois University’s 2011 NIU Alumni Association Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award winners honored Thursday night at DeKalb’s historic Egyptian Theatre during NIU’s third annual Victors Awards. The Victors saw NIU student-athletes, coaches, athletic department and...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team added Wisconsin-transfer Lacia Gorman to its 2013-14 roster on Tuesday. The 5’6” guard will be a sophomore for the Huskies in the 2013-14 campaign and brings a true point guard mentality to the program. “I know Lacia because I went through the recruiting process with her when I was...

The NIU women’s basketball team is pointed in the right direction despite a season-ending, hard-fought 72-62 loss to Toledo in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Thursday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena. NIU (14-17, 6-10 MAC) entered the game as the No. 7 seed and had already won two games in the tournament...

Senior forward Kim Davis (Evanston, Ill./Evanston) has lived on the offensive glass all season. Her grittiness greatly benefitted Northern Illinois as she scrapped Courtney Shelton’s (Rockford, Ill./Hononegah) miss and laid it in amongst traffic with six seconds left to give No. 7 NIU a 61-60 win over No. 6 Akron on Wednesday afternoon in the...

Northern Illinois forward Claire Jakubicek (Cary, Ill./Cary-Grove) was named Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year, the league announced Tuesday. Voted on by the league’s coaches and media, Jakubicek is just the second Huskie to garner the accolade from the MAC after Joi Scott accomplished the feat for the 2002-03 campaign. Overall, Jakubicek is the fourth...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team wiped its mouth clean after getting the bad taste of Tuesday’s loss out with a 68-51 win over Western Michigan on Saturday afternoon at the NIU Convocation Center. With the Huskies’ first Mid-American Conference Tournament win since 2007, No. 7 NIU (13-16, 6-10 MAC) eliminated No. 10 WMU (8-22,...

Northern Illinois did it to Western Michigan on Jan. 19 and WMU returned the favor in a 66-64 overtime win over NIU on Tuesday night at the NIU Convocation Center in the last Mid-American Conference regular season game. The 53-41 win for NIU back in January in Kalamazoo, Mich., snapped a six-game losing streak for...

The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team‘s usual tough defense was not at the top of its game as Eastern Michigan shot 44.8 percent from the field to earn a 77-57 win on Saturday afternoon in a Mid-American Conference West Division game at the NIU Convocation Center. Both teams entered the game on winning streaks —...