Bill Coen stood in the post-game press conference, searching for the words to describe his team’s fourth consecutive defeat. His Northeastern (NU) team had just blown a 14-point second half lead in Saturday night’s home loss to Elon University.
After spending most of last year near the top of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) standings, the Northeastern men’s basketball team finds itself in unfamiliar territory. Back-to-back home losses have the Huskies at the seventh spot in the polls with a 4-4 conference record.
Parity is king this season in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), and Northeastern men’s basketball (12-7) finds itself in an already heated race after a 1-1 week. The Huskies’ comeback effort fell short in a home tilt against James Madison University (JMU) on Thursday night, 75-63. On Saturday, the Huskies once again fell behind early, but rallied for a road win over the University of Delaware (UD), 69-60.
Much has been ado since the Huskies raised their first CAA Championship banner at halftime of a win over Harvard on Dec.2. Michigan State University, at the time the No.1 team in the country, became the first top-ranked team to grace the halls of Matthews Arena. A resurgent Quincy Ford snatched up back-to-back Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Week honors, launching himself into the conversation for conference player of the year. Off the court, sophomore guard Devon Begley traded in his signature blonde-trimmed Mohawk for a conventional, unexciting buzzcut.
In a weekend full of Husky hoops, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball team went 2-1 in a three-game series as a part of the Men Against Breast Cancer Challenge.
After one of the most successful seasons in program history in 2014-15, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball team kept the momentum by defeating two Boston rivals in its first pair of games this season.
Let’s make one thing abundantly clear: I think I speak for everyone at Northeastern University when I say I am extremely proud of the men’s basketball team and the way it played against the University of Notre Dame last Thursday.
Junior guard David Walker was the backbone of the Northeastern men’s basketball team on its road to a Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) championship and subsequent bid into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament.
For the first time since 1991, the Northeastern University Huskies are going to the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies punched their ticket to the Big Dance last weekend by winning their first ever Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament title. The No. 14-seeded Huskies will face No. 3 Notre Dame on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
