"Word on the street" says that NIU will play WIU in basketball this upcoming season.

Nothing official released as of yet, but I'm assuming NIU will host the game but not certain about that.

A Division-I Conference must be composed of at least 7 active D-I members. That's actually perfect for all current Division-I public Universities in Illinois below the FBS cut-line. MIGA Conference (MIGAC) Western Illinois University (Macomb) Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) Eastern Illino...

The solution is obvious. Get ready for the new MIGA ( Make Illinois Great Again ) Conference. Start the countdown for earning the conference autobids to national tournaments. It will take a while but be worth the wait. Also, if your school is not playing football today, you are in this new conferen...

Already have updates to some of the position posts. A few guys got added to the roster today...some were most likely walk-ons, some were transfers we knew about, and a couple were transfers we didn't. On the DB front, we have: Brandon Mayes - 5'11" 190lb Senior from Aurora, IL (by way of NIU) ...

NIU outscored Western by 11 in the 4th qr to win the game 96-94. Morgan Blumer led the Western scoring with 31 points. Emily Clemens had 21. Taylor Higginbotham had 13. Attendance at NIU = 550. What a thrilling finish to that game. NIU getting a little payback for last year's close loss in Macomb w...

Congrats on stomping Central.

Way to go, 'Necks!

GO 'Necks!

Beat Central!

Good luck this weekend.

I'm a little late with this but, CONGRATS on the BIGGEST FBS WIN in program history, 'Necks!

Respect.

Falling public university enrollment shows effects of state budget impasse. From today's Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-state-university-enrollment-drops-met-20170912-story.html Interesting to note that the Chicago area schools were the only ones that had incr...

Earliest rumors were that Valpo and Murray State were the choices and that the MVC was going to expand to 11. Some speculation was that 12 was the actual target but that Belmont rebuffed the MVC. Some of the latest murmurs are that perhaps the MVC only adds Valpo as the 10th member. Further specula...