The Northeastern University (NU) indoor track and field teams kicked off the season with a bang, putting together several outstanding performances in their first two meets of the campaign.
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.
For Husky fans, the first half of the 2015 -16 men’s hockey season was one to forget. After a solid opening-night win against a promising Colgate team, a series of unfortunate events befell the Huskies, including untimely injuries and inconsistent play, leaving them with a 1-10-2 record heading into the Friendship Four tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
As the first half of Northeastern University’s men’s basketball matchup with Harvard University came to a close, the roar of the crowd grew. The Huskies led 46-42, but the fans were cheering for something else: the raising of Northeastern’s 2015 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship banner, the first of its kind hanging from the rafters in Matthews Arena.
After struggling against the top-ranked Providence College Friars, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s hockey team got its bearings overseas during Thanksgiving break. The team dropped a heartbreaker overtime decision to No. 4 University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell before routing Colgate University 7-1 in the consolation game of the Friendship Four tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
After going undefeated in its first three games, the Northeastern University (NU) women’s basketball team slowed down over the past two weeks, splitting its last four games to bring its record to 4-2 on the season.
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.
For the first time this season, the Northeastern University (NU) women’s ice hockey team hit a rough patch, dropping three of its last four contests in the last two weeks. Two of those losses came to No. 2 Boston College (BC) and the third at the hands of No. 8 Harvard University, with the lone win coming over the University of Vermont on Nov. 21.
As I journeyed from class to class on a brisk Monday afternoon, the cloud-covered, gloom-projecting sky fully represented the hollow feeling of football fallout on Northeastern’s campus and in all of Boston, following the New England Patriots’ heart-wrenching loss at the hands of conference rival Denver Broncos.
In its final meet of the season, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s cross country team clinched first place at the 107th Annual IC4A/ECAC Championship at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City on Nov. 21. The title is the men’s first since 1975.
Although it didn’t match last year’s first-place finish at the Frank Elm Invitational, the Northeastern University swimming and diving team took home a top-three finish in this year’s meet in Piscataway, N.J.
