For Logan Trenary, the opportunity to continue wrestling will take him to another state. Trenary, a recent graduate of Southeast Polk High School, has signed with Northern Illinois University to ...

Textbooks that once cost Northern Illinois University students a small fortune now sit humbly priced at less than a cup of coffee, their academic value replaced by nostalgic or reference worth.

Northern Illinois guard Quaran McPherson, center, guard Will Lovings-Watts, left, and forward Yanic Konan Niederhauser, right, walk on the court during the second half of an NCAA college ...

Guard Nasir Muhammad, a Brooklyn native, has committed to transfer to UAlbany men's basketball after spending the past two seasons at Northern Illinois. Guard Nasir Muhammad, a Brooklyn native ...

Demonstrators at Northern Illinois University rallied Wednesday in support of five international students whose visas were revoked by the White House. RFK Jr. Calls Out King Abdullah: ‘They’ve ...

Linh Nguyen is an educator at Northern Illinois University, supporting the teaching staff. Nguyen’s background is in computational chemistry. Teaching at NIU is what brought her to DeKalb in 2016. “So ...

Northern Illinois will join the new-look Mountain West Conference in football, which could net the university $5 million a year, significantly more than what the MAC gets every year from its TV ...

The entrance fee for joining the Horizon League will cost NIU $1.4 million over six annual installments. It will not be the first time NIU’s non-football programs have played outside the MAC.

The majority of the Northern Illinois athletics department is set to join the Horizon League in 2026, pending approval by the university’s board of trustees Thursday. NIU announced in January ...

Northern Illinois will play one last season in all sports in the 2025-26 academic season in the 13-member configuration of the MAC before their departure. This is a developing story and will be ...

Northern Illinois makes 43.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.1 percentage points higher than Kent State has allowed to its opponents (37.1%).

Northern Illinois University officially announced its decision to leave the Mid-American Conference behind to become a football-only member of the Mountain West Conference, effective July 1, 2026.