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.
In the Hockey East Tournament semifinals, the Northeastern women’s hockey team fell short to Boston University (BU) on March 7 at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center in Massachusetts. BU defeated the Huskies 6-1 and bumped Northeastern from the tournament.
The first round of the Hockey East playoffs didn’t go as planned for the Northeastern men’s hockey team as it was swept at home by Merrimack College in two overtime games on March 6 and 7. Merrimack won the first game 3-2 in overtime and the second 2-1 in double overtime.
The Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A)/Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships, hosted by Boston University (BU) March 6-8, concluded the Northeastern men’s and women’s track and field teams’ indoor season.
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.
After a leading performance at the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championships, freshman diver Jacquelyn Gover represented Northeastern in this year’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Zone A Diving Championships.
Northeastern (23-11) won three consecutive games last week to capture the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament title and an automatic bid to the Big Dance.
The Northeastern women’s basketball team (4-24) concluded its arduous regular season on Wednesday night, dropping the last game of a difficult three-game stretch against Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) rival Drexel University (20-9).
Head Coach Jim Madigan was suspended for the final two games of the regular season, including Saturday’s Senior Night against Boston University (BU). Madigan was not allowed at his usual post atop the Northeastern bench, but rather on the opposite side of the ice in the press box.
When the Northeastern men’s baseball team left Columbia, S.C. last Sunday after dropping a hard-fought game against the 12th-ranked team in the country, players and coaches alike were confident that the Huskies could take on any team.
