Northern Kentucky Sports Chronicle

--- Note: This PDF document was originally published on May 22, 2009. --- The current NKU Athletics Web site launched in 1999 and has gone through considerable changes during the past 10 years. Another big change will occur this summer when NKU launches its new Web site, which will be run through Internet Consulting Services. To celebrate the 10th birthday of the NKU Athletics Web site, here are many of the players, coaches and memorable moments from the past 10 years. (click below for publication) https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/xmyk/#p=1

Here is the 2010 publication detailing the first 39 years of the athletics department at Northern Kentucky University. The link for the PDF document is below. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/smjj/#p=1  

(This column was originally published on March 21, 2020) National television beckoned for the first time in school history. An NCAA championship would be at stake in less than 48 hours. It was March 21, 1996, and Northern Kentucky had just knocked off powerful Virginia Union in the NCAA Division II Final Four. NKU head coach Ken Shields was wrapping up a surreal evening at the Commonwealth Convention Center in Louisville with a final one-on-one interview with a newspaper reporter. The makeshift basketball site had just provided one of the classic games in Division II history, as LaRon Moore hit a 12-foot turnaround jumper in the closing seconds to give NKU a 68-66 win over Virginia Union. The NKU players — Moore, Andre McClendon and Paul Cluxton — had already done their mandatory interviews at the NCAA postgame press conference. The media, though, wanted plenty of one-on-one interviews with Shields. So did some officials from CBS, which would be televising NKU’s national championship g...

                                                                                                                                                                Attached below in a PDF file is the history timeline of Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball. It was published for several years in the NKU media guides and features much of the history from 1971 until 2013. Also included are team photos from each season (1971-2013) and all-time records that were updated through 2013. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfo...

NKU’s Paul Cluxton, LaRon Moore, Andre McClendon and Ken Shields after defeating Virginia Union. ---------------- (This story was originally published in The Kentucky Post on March 22, 1996) By Tom Gamble Kentucky Post sports editor LOUISVILLE — After spending more than three decades on the sideline and winning almost 600 career games, Northern Kentucky University basketball coach Ken Shields can sense when a team has what it takes to win. And Shields has that feeling. One night after sophomore guard Andy Listerman scored a career-high 19 points, including the game-winning layup with 2.8 seconds left to give NKU a 56-55 win over Cal State Bakersfield, the Norse found another way to win. Thursday, it was junior forward LaRon Moore who came up with the big shot — a turnaround jumper with just 3.2 seconds remaining (pictured on right) — that enabled NKU to beat Virginia Union, 68-66, in an NCAA Division II semifinal game before a crowd of 2,596 at the Commonwealth Convention Center. As a ...

(This story was originally published on March 10, 1997) By Tom Gamble Kentucky Post sports editor INDIANAPOLIS — Every time the Northern Kentucky University basketball team steps onto the Regents Hall court for practice, the Norse are reminded of their six preseason goals. But, when NKU players check the list posted inside their locker room today, they’ll find only one goal remains unaccomplished — a goal that has been their only real objective since last March. “Winning a national championship is what we're really out to accomplish,” said senior forward LaRon Moore. “If we don't do it now, we won't have another chance. We’re this far, so (there’s) no reason to lose now.” Moore made sure the Norse didn’t lose Saturday, scoring 20 of his career-high 35 points in the second half to help No. 2 seed NKU defeat Oakland (Mich.), 101-87, in the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional final before 1,550 at Nicoson Hall. A 6-foot-6, 190-pound Lexington native, Moore scored 17 of NKU...

W hat do I remember about Dec. 8, 2011? I recall it was actually sunny outside. I remember seeing television trucks and other media vehicles pulling up in the circle outside The Bank of Kentucky Center. I’ll never forget the press conference and the announcement that NKU was making the jump to NCAA Division I and joining the Atlantic Sun Conference. And I’ll always remember the crowd that cheered the news later in the afternoon at the public announcement. Here’s a look at that day, with plenty of awesome photos taken by Jeff McCurry, when NKU moved its athletics program to NCAA Division I. The publication NKU produced that day is also linked below in a PDF document. --------------------