By Chris Tramontozzi, News Correspondent

As if one double overtime game weren’t enough, the women’s basketball team played back-to-back extra time affairs this week, defeating Holy Cross on the road 89-82 on Saturday and falling 90-85 last night at Harvard.
The Huskies fought a close battle against the Crusaders, needing 10 extra minutes and another high-scoring performance by sophomore guard Brittany Wilson to come out with a victory.
The Huskies jumped to an early eight-point lead. After a 6-0 run to make the Huskies’ lead 16-8, Holy Cross stormed back with an 11-0 run of its own that put them up 19-16.
Holy Cross took a 2-point lead into halftime at 33-31. Wilson scored 18 in the first half, keeping her team close.
NU had a season-high 29 turnovers on the game and coach Daynia La-Force Mann said the Huskies were beating themselves.
‘I thought we were causing our demise by the mistakes we were making,’ La-Force Mann said. ‘I was just waiting for them to realize that we need to take care of the ball and stop giving them an opportunity to beat them.’
The second half was close again, with the Huskies outscoring Holy Cross 32-30 to end regulation tied at 63. Northeastern shot better in the second half and both teams finished at 43.5 percent for the game.
In overtime the lead was traded back and forth between the two teams. The Huskies were able to get up 68-65, but a Holy Cross 3-pointer tied it with two minutes left in overtime. From there the Huskies and Crusaders traded baskets and finished the first overtime tied at 74.
The second overtime was a different story. The Huskies came out firing with an early four-point lead and did not look back. The lead was as many as eight and the final score was 89-82.
They were led by Wilson who had a career high 31 points and went 12-12 from the free throw line. After this performance Wilson was named CAA player of the week for the first time in her career.
‘It felt great, I am trying to gain my respect in the conference. I use it as a weekly motivation. Something every week I can achieve. I was ecstatic,’ Wilson said.
La-Force Mann said she has been very pleased with the way Wilson has been playing so far this year.
‘It has been fun to watch her,’ La-Force Mann said. ‘After the first few games I sat her down in my office and I told her what she needed to do to be a better player. That she needed to help this offense and shoot more. After the meeting she has been having much better performances then early in the season.’
In their next game the Huskies lost another double-overtime thriller, this time to rival Harvard.
The first half saw five lead changes with the Crimson ultimately taking a 35-31 point lead into halftime.
Wilson led the team with 12 points in the first half.
The teams continued to trade leads until Harvard took an eight-point lead with 10 minutes remaining. The Huskies clawed back and tied the game at 59-59 with three minutes remaining on a coast-to-coast lay up by Wilson. Both teams continued trading baskets, but neither team could get the edge, and the game was tied 65-65 at the end of regulation.
In the first overtime, the Huskies jumped to a three-point lead, but Harvard came back after sophomore guard Brogan Berry converted on two free throws to make the lead 73-72 Northeastern. Sophomore guard Kashaia Cannon continued to get fouled, but was only able to convert on one free throw. That allowed freshman guard Victoria Lippert of Harvard to tie the game at 74-74 and send it into another overtime.
Midway through the second overtime, Harvard went on a 6-0 run which put the game away and ultimately win 90-85. Northeastern’s record fell to 5-3 on the season.
Wilson finished the game with 34 points and 21 rebounds which were both career highs and the most rebounds for a Huskies player in 22 years.
The Huskies have three more games before conference play starts. The team plays at Hartford Dec. 13, at Marist Dec. 22, and hosts St. John’s Dec. 29.
‘These next three games are going to be really tough for us.’ Coach La-Force Mann said. ‘ We are facing opponents in the top 50 this is going to be a good test for us ‘hellip; we now have to come out and show what we’ve learned in the first half of our non conference schedule.’