Northeastern swimming and diving lost to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst 158-142 in a Colonial Athletic Association dual meet on Saturday. Additionally, the Huskies placed sixth out of eight teams in the Nike Tournament which took place from Nov.15-17.
This has been a disappointing season so far for Northeastern hockey fans. The men’s hockey team started off with big wins against Merrimack College and Boston College, but has since regressed to 5-8-1. The good news is that the women’s hockey team has played well with a 9-5-2 record so far this season.
After picking up their first conference win on Friday night in Amherst in 11 games, the men’s hockey team couldn’t complete the home-and-home series sweep of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst tonight as they fell 6-3 at Matthews Arena.
The men’s basketball team didn’t come out on top as they fell by three to the University of Maine Black Bears, 76-73, at the buzzer Wednesday night to open a four game home stand.
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).
