Senior forward Don Anding scored 5:21 into double overtime of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship, giving Northeastern a 1-0 win over Hofstra University and sending the Huskies to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002.
Senior goalie Chris Rawlings picked up his 10th shutout as a Husky, moving ahead of Brad Thiessen (2006-09) to hold the all-time shutout record for Northeastern goalies, as the men’s hockey team beat the University of Alabama-Huntsville 3-0 at Matthews Arena tonight.
Sophomore guard Demetrius Pollard nailed a buzzer-beating three-point shot for a 65-64 Husky win over crosstown rivals Boston University on opening night after making only four three-pointers in 188 minutes his rookie season.
Northeastern fell to Drexel University for the second time in their previous four games, 2-1 in overtime. To the victor went the spoils, as the win gave the Dragons an automatic bid to the Division I tournament and left Northeastern searching for an at-large bid.
For the third time this season, the volleyball team dealt with the pressure of a five-set marathon match on Friday night and came out victorious over the College of William & Mary.
The women’s hockey team’s offense exploded against the University of Connecticut as seven goal scorers combined for 14 goals in a sweep of the weekend’s home-and-home series.
The men’s hockey team dropped both games of its home-and-home series with Merrimack College last weekend, a 5-2 rout at Matthews Arena on Friday and a 4-2 decision the following night at Lawler Arena in Andover.
The Huskies kick off their postseason with a semifinal Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament clash with third-seeded James Madison University tomorrow night, and with it will come a potent realization: what happened in the regular season no longer matters.
While the fall sports’ teams are knee deep in postseason tournaments and hockey is shifting into the middle stretch of the year, the men’s and women’s basketball teams are using preseason accolades to start the season off on the right foot, as the NCAA basketball season tips off tomorrow.
The swimming and diving team traveled to Norfolk, Va., for a Colonial Athletic Association pod meet with George Mason, Towson and Old Dominion universities on Saturday.
