IF GRANDMOTHER HAD WHEELS, SHE'D BE A TRAMCAR. The Northern Illinois University womens' basketball team extends its losing streak to six.

"This is extremely frustrating," [guard Stephanie] Raymond said. "In the beginning of the season we felt we couldn’t win the first half. Now it’s switched and we can’t win the second half. We just don’t know what to do."

Umm, isn't that why teams have coaches?

"I’m very disappointed," said NIU coach Carol Hammerle, whose team has lost six in a row. "I thought our team executed throughout the majority of the game. We just didn’t win."

For this we are paying in the mid-hundred-Ks?