Northern Illinois narrowly beats Zips, 80-79

The Northern Illinois Huskies snapped a five game losing streak by beating the University of Akron men’s basketball team on Saturday, 80-79, in DeKalb, Illinois. The Huskies also ended a seven game Zips winning streak.

The loss gave the Zips a 20-5 record overall with a 9-3 conference record while Northern Illinois improved to 17-8 and 6-6 in the MAC.

Northern Illinois won despite another excellent game from the Akron bench. After sitting out Tuesdays game at Bowling Green, freshman Josh Williams made six 3-pointers to total 22 points. Williams has now scored at least 20 points in each of his last three games played. Big man Isaiah Johnson also came off the bench to score 16 points, while…