The women’s basketball team combined a dominant defensive performance with a season-high 19 points from Kashaia Cannon to cruise to a 80-45 victory against Dartmouth College, improving to 3-2 for the season Tuesday afternoon.
The women’s ice hockey team was on the losing end of a top-10 matchup as they lost to the Harvard University Crimson, 3-1, Tuesday night at Matthews Arena.
While college hockey has been filling the gap left by the National Hockey League lockout, something has to give. It seems the lockout has had a surprising lack of urgency.
When the men’s hockey season ends some four months from now, Northeastern may look back at Friday’s 5-2 thrashing at the hands of St. Lawrence University and realize that was when it had truly hit rock bottom.
Men's hockey head coach Jim Madigan turned to the New England Patriot’s head coach Bill Belichick for inspiration for his squad this week, which hasn’t seen a win since Nov. 11’s 3-1 victory over the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
If the Northeastern men’s hockey season was to be analogized to the timeline of a VH1 retrospective, the celebrity would have had no time to celebrate their ascension from rags to riches.
The Huskies went 20-6 in the regular season and 9-3 against Colonial Athletic Association teams. They finished third in the conference, but were eliminated from the tournament by the James Madison University Dukes in a five-set marathon (25-21, 25-22, 23-25, 27-29, 7-15).
After an opening 61-52 win against University of California-Riverside and another comeback win against Belmont University, the Huskies nearly had another late rally against University of North Carolina-Charlotte in the Great Alaskan Shootout Championship. They came up just short and finished in second place after losing to the Charlotte 49ers on Saturday, 67-59.
