Senior guard Braylon Rayson, right, drives to the hoop during the game against Green Bay on Dec. 6 at McGuirk Arena.
Following a 85-63 loss at Eastern Michigan on Tuesday, the Central Michigan men’s basketball team traveled to DeKalb, Illinois on Saturday looking for its first win in Mid-American Conference play.
The Northern Illinois Huskies had other plans.
Behind a well-rounded scoring attack, NIU (9-6, 1-1 MAC) defeated the Chippewas (10-5, 0-2 MAC) 87-83 at the Convocation Center to give CMU their second straight loss.
The Chippewas were down by 17 late in the second half and rallied to cut it down to 3.