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Track and field sweeps weekly MAC awards
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DeKalb | The Huskies swept the MAC track and field weekly awards for the first time in program history Wednesday. Senior thrower Sidra Sherrill was named MAC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week and sophomore sprinter A’Iesha Irvin-Muhammad earned MAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week honors. During the Huskies’ first outdoor competition this weekend at the Billiken Kickoff in St. Louis, Sherrill won the discus throw at 46.47 meters. Irvin-Muhammad won the 100-meter dash (11.99 seconds) the 200-meter dash (24.71 seconds) and was part of the 4-by100-meter relay team that took first place (45.95 seconds).
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Senior Aaron Armstead (2) dribbles in a game against Western Michigan on March 4 at the Convocation Center. Winning at a high level consistently will create a basketball culture among students, writes Sports Editor Frank Gogola.
Winning will build basketball culture
Victories, not gifts, will attract students
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Men’s basketball saw its attendance increase by nearly 25 percent in a season in which the Huskies’ record remained nearly stagnant. The Huskies went 14-16 (.467) this season after going 15-17 (.469) in 2013-14. Unlike their winning percentage, attendance jumped up significantly from 1,012 to 1,251 fans per game — still low for a Division I team — this season for an increase of 23.6 percent. While it’s difficult to separate exactly how many of those additional attendees were students, there’s been a visible increase in student attendance this season. There is in fact a real, living, breathing student section at basketball games — even if it looks slightly pathetic in person and even worse on ESPN3.
Part of that increase may have to do with the giveaways of water bottles, T-shirts and battle hand gloves (and who could forget the one-person trip to Hawaii?). While gimmicks will draw in a few handfuls of students, the simplest way to increase student attendance at basketball games and create a basketball culture among the students is winning. Living up to football For as big a sport basketball has become in Chicago — especially with the talent the city’s high schools are shipping out — NIU is still first and foremost a football school. The reason: The Huskies win. They win regularly. Most importantly, they’re winning now. There was a time in the late 90s when a football win was an aberration. From 1996-98 the football team won three games. Combined. The change since then needs no explanation as the Huskies have made it to five-straight MAC Championship games under three head coaches and have won three of the past four MAC Championships.
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