Northern Illinois will move its basketball and other non-football programs to the Horizon League in 2026, the Board of Trustees approved in a vote Thursday. The move is the result of NIU recently ...

When Northern Illinois football left ... NIU, one of the MAC’s most successful football programs, previously a member of the Horizon League – then known as the Midwestern Collegiate Conference ...

That includes men's and women's basketball, which will increase the Horizon League's basketball pools to 12 schools. The move by Northern Illinois was necessitated by its football team moving to ...