Biggest basketball win in years!

(11-07-2026 10:20 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  Biggest basketball win in years!

Probably biggest road win since Patton brought NIU to Akron in 2008 and beat a highly regarded Zips team

What an enormous win. So happy for coach what a great first win. That Max Weisbrod + DJ Douglas backcourt is FILTHY.

(11-07-2026 10:26 PM)huskiefan03 Wrote:  What an enormous win. So happy for coach what a great first win. That Max Weisbrod + DJ Douglas backcourt is FILTHY.

You could tell Maj REALLY wanted that one

Glad someone made its own thread. Great win! Especially when Dayton took the lead and we answered right away. That’s a sign of a team that expects to win

Awesome game awesome win!

weisbrod and Douglas Jr. tag team.

Matt Majkrzak . Majkrzak . Majkrzak Majkrzak …. Great win!

(11-07-2026 10:28 PM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  

(11-07-2026 10:26 PM)huskiefan03 Wrote:  What an enormous win. So happy for coach what a great first win. That Max Weisbrod + DJ Douglas backcourt is FILTHY.

You could tell Maj REALLY wanted that one

Congratulations to coach Mac and this new Huskie squad. May it be the first of many to come!

Basketball season is here! Looking forward to Wednesday.

What an unbelievable win. Dayton’s enjoyed one of college basketball’s best home court advantages for a long time. Congrats to the coaching staff, players, and the AD who hired the coach.

(11-07-2026 11:32 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  What an unbelievable win. Dayton’s enjoyed one of college basketball’s best home court advantages for a long time. Congrats to the coaching staff, players, and the AD who hired the coach.

I love the passive aggressive line to congratulate the AD. I am very excited about coach Mac and thing he was a great hire. Third times a charm

Maybe SF is a basketball focused AD. Because football for the past decade has been well below average at 51-66

(11-08-2026 08:43 AM)JB04 Wrote:  

(11-07-2026 11:32 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  What an unbelievable win. Dayton’s enjoyed one of college basketball’s best home court advantages for a long time. Congrats to the coaching staff, players, and the AD who hired the coach.

I love the passive aggressive line to congratulate the AD. I am very excited about coach Mac and thing he was a great hire. Third times a charm

Maybe SF is a basketball focused AD. Because football for the past decade has been well below average at 51-66

Funny - I was thinking just the opposite. He’s so focused on football that he leaves basketball alone and look at the result.

Great win, fun to watch, loves seeing a huge A10 fanbase deflate on TV :)

Imagine this NIU team if they had one more decent big, we were small compared to Dayton and Tulsa, you could see it.

Great effort from the team, coach Mac seems to be building a solid culture, the boys have fight in them, good stuff.

Didn’t see that coming at all. Caught most of the game. Had to hold off multiple rallies and foul trouble. Proved they belonged in that game and it wasn’t just a hot shooting fluke win.

Love the coverage from the NIU hoops twitter account this week. We are starting to resemble a legitimate program.

With making double digit 3’s a game they will have a shot in most games. I’m not sure why they didn’t get a couple 6’9 6’10 guys most teams have them there’s lots of kids out there. They don’t even need to be good just rebound and get in the way on defense. Clean up the fouling and it could be a decent year. Please come out to the NIU home games it will help turn this program around

Credit STF for not screwing up the MWC opportunity when it presented itself, and our MBB coach is a solid hire (WBB not so much thus far).

Having said that, he's been flat or worse for years, fires off bad extensions, is not the AD to take NIU to the next level, congratulating himself for "keeping the lights on". Get him out as soon as possible. We need better fundraising, corporate and alumni both, it's possible with the right AD. We're in the 3rd largest U.S. market for god sakes, a nice 25-30k stadium with suites tower backed up by solid G6 NIL $ should be very obtainable.

Sorry to turn this fun victory into another anti-STF ad, but that guy has dragged his feet for years, NIU Trustees' fault at the end of the day.

Weisbrod played for Northern Michigan 2 years ago, went to UNI last year and started all their games, and he landed here to reunite with Coach M. Benefit to hiring a successful lower division coach that I hope football can replicate.

Great win. This noncon schedule is a gauntlet but it should prepare the team for competing in league play.

(11-08-2026 08:54 AM)Prince Crossing Wrote:  

(11-08-2026 08:43 AM)JB04 Wrote:  

(11-07-2026 11:32 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  What an unbelievable win. Dayton’s enjoyed one of college basketball’s best home court advantages for a long time. Congrats to the coaching staff, players, and the AD who hired the coach.

I love the passive aggressive line to congratulate the AD. I am very excited about coach Mac and thing he was a great hire. Third times a charm

Maybe SF is a basketball focused AD. Because football for the past decade has been well below average at 51-66

Funny - I was thinking just the opposite. He’s so focused on football that he leaves basketball alone and look at the result.

I was being sarcastic He definitely has been football focused, but as of now basketball (and baseball) are all I can be happy about

I know it is early and big jumps in rankings are common so beating Dayton on the road gave us these results. PomRoy 260 a 35 pt improvement. Massey comp 274 a 42pt improvement.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!