Huskies not ready for jump to AAC

Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia.com Students from Tilton Elementary School in Rochelle hold up their homemade signs during the NIU women's basketball game on Education Day at the NIU Convocation Center on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. NIU beat Miami, 92-73.Don’t expect Northern Illinois to be leaving the Mid-American Conference anytime soon.

The landscape of college athletics was shook up recently when it came out that the Big 12 Conference was looking to expand, which inevitably caused some Northern Illinois fans to dream. NIU will not be in the Big 12, but if the Big 12 takes schools that are currently in the American Athletic Conference – like Houston – that will open up a slot and the…