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Kathi Bennett
The Northern Illinois women’s basketball team released its 2012-13 schedule on Wednesday. The slate features 11 home games, four games against 2011-12 NCAA Tournament teams and three games against 2011-12 conference champions. “With a young team, this a very challenging but exciting schedule,” said third-year NIU head coach Kathi Bennett, who recently received a contract...
Kathi Bennett
Northern Illinois has extended the contract of women’s basketball head coach Kathi Bennett through the 2017 season, NIU Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher announced Wednesday. “Kathi Bennett has what it takes to rebuild and lead our women’s basketball team to a MAC Championship,” Compher said. “This contract extension is a reflection...
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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...
NIU cheerleaders run basketball court with H-U-S-K-I-E-S flags
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...
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For the seventh consecutive year, all 17 of Northern Illinois University’s sports programs have exceeded the academic standards measured by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) according to the 2012 APR report released today by the organization. The APR has become the primary tool used by the NCAA to judge a team’s...
Joe Conroy
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...
Kevin McManaman
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...
Lacia Gorman
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...
Kim Davis
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...
Kim Davis
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...
Amanda Corral
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,...
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