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With the first day of spring still a few days away, Northern Illinois University Athletics has announced the dates and locations for the 2016 Huskie Summer Circuit, the annual “tour” that brings NIU Athletics head coaches and staff in contact with fans and alumni throughout the region. The Huskie Summer Circuit, which made its debut...
Huskie Summer Circuit 2015
Northern Illinois University head coaches and members of the athletics staff will hit the road for four days this June for the Huskie Summer Circuit, the annual “tour” that brings NIU Athletics to fans and alumni throughout the region. The Huskie Summer Circuit, which made its debut in 2014, returns to Rockford (June 1), Chicago...
Rob Sterling
A school-record and league-leading 14 Northern Illinois University Huskie football players have been named to the Mid-American Conference’s 2014 Academic All-MAC Football Team released Tuesday by the league office. NIU’s 14 Academic All-MAC players tied with Central Michigan as the most by any school in the league. Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan and Ohio each had...
Ross Walton
Ross Watson, whose coaching experience includes stints on the defensive staffs at Nebraska and Florida Atlantic, has joined the Northern Illinois University football staff as an assistant coach working with the Huskie defense, NIU head coach Rod Carey announced Thursday. Watson comes to NIU from Youngstown State University, where he had been elevated to assistant...
Cameron Stingily
The NIU football team found the red zone plenty of times in tallying more than 400 yards of offense Tuesday night at the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl but failed to capitalize on most of those trips, falling 52-23 to a Marshall team that did capitalize on opportunity. Marshall was 6-for-6 in the red zone, and the...
Boca Raton Bowl logo
The Northern Illinois University Huskies, champions of the Mid-American Conference for the third time in the last four years, will meet Conference USA champion Marshall Thundering Herd in the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, Fla. Sean T. Frazier, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, and the league made the announcement Sunday. The...
Drew Hare
DETROIT — The Northern Illinois University Huskies used big plays on defense and a balanced offensive attack, amassing 552 yards of total offense while holding the Bowling Green State University Falcons to just 17 points in a 51-17 MAC championship win. Drew Hare earned most valuable player honors with 12 carries for 60 yards and...
Joel Bouganon
Talk about déjà vu. One year has passed since NIU and Bowling Green faced off at Detroit’s Ford Field for Mid-American Conference bragging rights. Jordan Lynch’s undefeated and nationally ranked Huskies, who were looking for a third straight MAC crown during their fourth consecutive appearance in the Motor City, somehow went home on the wrong...
So it all comes down to this. Rod Carey and the NIU Huskie football team will work off their turkey dinners Friday morning in Kalamazoo, where the final game of the regular season means everything. Carey and Co. must beat NIU alum P.J. Fleck’s Western Michigan Broncos to win the Mid-American Conference West Division and...
Chad Beebe
The Northern Illinois University football team (9-2, 6-1) scored a touchdown with six minutes remaining, and the Huskies forced a turnover with less than two minutes left in the game to defeat the Ohio University Bobcats, 21-14, at Peden Stadium. The win keeps NIU in the driver’s seat in pursuit of its fifth straight MAC...
The last time NIU and Ohio took opposite sides of a football field, it was in Detroit for the 2011 Mid-American Conference Championship. Huskie fans will remember that Ohio enjoyed a heartbreaking 20-0 halftime lead, which at the time seemed insurmountable. Yet the Bobcats would never score again that night. Quarterback Chandler Harnish, held to...
NIU moved into first place in the Mid-American Conference West Division with a 27-24 victory over Toledo on Tuesday night at Huskie Stadium. With the win NIU improves to 8-2 overall, 5-1 in the MAC, while Toledo suffered its first league loss to fall to 6-4 overall, 5-1 in league play. Senior tailback Cameron Stingily...
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