Northern Illinois 69, at Toledo 79

TOLEDO, Ohio (Interstat) — In a game that was far more competitive than the final margin suggested, the Toledo Rockets used a decisive second-half surge to pull away from the Northern Illinois Huskies for a 79-69 victory in a Mid-American Conference men’s basketball game Tuesday night at Savage Hall. A crowd of 4,531 saw the Rockets improve to 15-13 overall, while the Huskies fell to 9-18. The game was a rematch of a Jan. 6 meeting in DeKalb, which Toledo won by 14 points. This contest, however, followed a different script for much of the night, with Northern Illinois demonstrating… Read more...