Women’s Basketball | February 6
DeKALB, IL – The Northern Illinois University girls’s basketball workforce opens a three-game homestand on Saturday towards the Texas State Bobcats on the NIU Convocation Center at 1 p.m. CT.
Tickets are on sale at NIUHuskies.com/tickets and by calling the NIU Athletics Ticket Office at 815-753-PACK (7225). NIU Athletics is celebrating National Girls and Women In Sports Day Saturday. NIU will host a pregame youth clinic at the side of the National Girls And Women In Sports Day recreation on Saturday. Participants on the clinic, open to kids ages 6-12, will work together and play with student-athletes from the Huskie girls’s sports activities applications, cheerleaders and dance workforce at completely different stations in Victor E. Court previous to the 1 p.m. recreation. Registration opens at 11 a.m. and the clinic begins at 11:45.
Saturday’s recreation is the second spherical of the MAC-SBC Challenge. The recreation can be broadcast on ESPN+ with the radio broadcast on NIUHuskies.com.
NIU (4-18, 2-9 MAC) shot a season-high 87.5 % from the free throw line Wednesday night time in a loss at Ball State. The Huskies had been 14-for-16 from the road within the recreation, marking the tenth time within the final 12 video games NIU made double digit free throws. It was the primary time in 5 video games the Huskies shot 70 % or higher on the free throw line. The final time NIU shot 80 % or higher was March 8, 2025 when the Huskies shot 86.7 % at Miami.
Nevaeh Wingate (Liverpool, N.Y./St. John’s) was 5-for-5 from the foul line on Wednesday night time, main the Huskies with 12 factors. It was her 14th recreation in double-figure scoring this season. She additionally had three assists at Ball State for her fifth recreation this 12 months with not less than 10 factors and three assists. Wingate is seventh within the Mid-American Conference in steals with 2.05 per recreation.
Sa’Mahn Johnson (Columbus, Ohio/Reynoldsburg) scored 10 factors off the bench at Ball State. Of her six double-figure scoring video games this season, 5 have are available in a reserve position. Johnson accounted for all 16 of NIU’s bench factors at Ohio on Jan. 17 and at Eastern Michigan on Jan. 24.
Texas State (10-12, 6-6 SBC) can be coming off a loss on Wednesday night time, 61-57 towards Georgia Southern. The Bobcats shot 46.9 % from the sphere however dedicated 23 turnovers which led to 13 Georgia Southern factors. Saniya Burks led Texas State with 17 factors as Kyra Anderson added 14 factors and 9 rebounds. Burks leads the Bobcats in scoring at 14.1 factors per recreation. Texas State is third within the Sun Belt in scoring protection, permitting 63.1 factors per recreation.
Saturday’s recreation is the second assembly all-time between NIU and Texas State. The Bobcats earned a 79-55 win on Dec. 6, 1996. NIU has gained each of its residence video games within the MAC-SBC Challenge, defeating Georgia Southern 91-84 on Feb. 10, 2024 and Louisiana by a rating of 57-55 on Nov. 4, 2024.
The Huskies proceed their homestand towards UMass on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m.
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