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NIU catches fire in MAC tourney, earns first NCAA bid in 54 years

By Mike McGraw
May 25, 2026 4:02 pm - Both Northern Illinois and Illinois-Chicago won their conference baseball tournaments over the weekend, with help from numerous area players. The two teams will head to NCAA regionals beginning Friday.
UCLA earns No. 1 seed for NCAA baseball tournament ahead of offensive juggernaut Georgia Tech

By ERIC OLSON
May 25, 2026 2:32 pm - OMAHA, Neb. — UCLA was rewarded Monday for its dominant wire-to-wire run through the regular season with the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament. The tournament opens Frid...
Northwestern beats North Carolina 14-11 for its 9th women's lacrosse national championship

May 24, 2026 6:49 pm - EVANSTON — Freshman Gabriella McCollester scored a career-high four goals, Taylor Lapointe and Aditi Foster both scored a hat trick, and Madison Taylor recorded seven poi...
College Achievers: Lakes graduate Kao vaults to the top at Oshkosh

By Dave Oberhelman
May 24, 2026 2:54 pm - Lakes Community High School graduate Collin Kao, a pole vaulter at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, set the program’s indoor and outdoor records.
What we heard at Big Ten meetings: No push to mandate 10 Power 4 opponents amid CFP talks

By Scott Dochterman
May 23, 2026 10:51 am - This fall, the SEC and ACC both shift to nine league games with every team in those leagues playing at least 10 power-conference opponents. Every Big 12 team plays 10, too, if the matchups with Pac-12 leftovers Washington State and Oregon State are counted. The Big Ten is now the outlier in this debate, with four teams — Indiana, Penn State, USC and Nebraska — facing only nine Power 4 opponents. And there’s no interest from the league office to require its teams to play 10 power opponents.
CEO of NIL enforcement reminds frustrated schools: These are your rules, we just enforce them

By EDDIE PELLS
May 21, 2026 7:08 pm - While frustration mounts across college sports and talk of breakaway conferences hits the hallways at conference's spring meetings, the leader of the agency formed to police name, image and likeness payments has a simple reminder: These are the rules you wrote.
Big Ten, Tony Petitti all in on 24-team CFP: ‘We feel strongly about it’

By Scott Dochterman
May 20, 2026 11:41 am - Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and his 18 universities are unanimous in their support of a 24-team College Football Playoff and bullish on what additional access would mean for their football programs in a larger tournament structure.
Women's flag football on track to gain NCAA championship status before sport makes its Olympic debut

By PAT GRAHAM
May 19, 2026 8:00 pm - Women's flag football is on track to gaining NCAA championship status. If all goes according to plan, a title game may even take place right before the sport makes its Ol...
College Achievers: A rare links achievement for a Wheaton Academy graduate

By Dave Oberhelman
May 17, 2026 2:42 pm - Wheaton Academy graduate Sam Dykema, a junior golfer at Indiana Wesleyan University, has done something no Wildcat has done before.
ACC formally backs Big Ten’s push for the College Football Playoff to expand to 24 teams

By MARK LONG
May 13, 2026 3:19 pm - AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — The Atlantic Coast Conference is backing the Big Ten’s push for a 24-team playoff, commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday. Speaking at the end of ...

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