The Huskies kick off their postseason with a semifinal Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament clash with third-seeded James Madison University tomorrow night, and with it will come a potent realization: what happened in the regular season no longer matters.
While the fall sports’ teams are knee deep in postseason tournaments and hockey is shifting into the middle stretch of the year, the men’s and women’s basketball teams are using preseason accolades to start the season off on the right foot, as the NCAA basketball season tips off tomorrow.
The swimming and diving team traveled to Norfolk, Va., for a Colonial Athletic Association pod meet with George Mason, Towson and Old Dominion universities on Saturday.
The men’s hockey team dropped their first home decision of the season, 5-1, to Merrimack College in the first game of the weekend’s home-and-home series tonight at Matthews Arena.
The No. 25 men’s soccer team lost to No. 24 Old Dominion University 1-0 Friday night, snapping its 12-game unbeaten streak and solidifying a second-place finish in the CAA.
Northeastern faced off against Robert Morris University Friday night and came out with a 3-3 tie as the Colonials scored in the final minute of regulation. Saturday afternoon the Huskies shut out the Maine University Black Bears 3-0.
The men’s hockey team was less than a week removed from being shut out at Boston College when they walked into the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H., to take on an undefeated University of New Hampshire team.
Hannah O’Donnell, Hillary Savoy and Hannah Terry know what it’s like to come out on the winning end of a double overtime, penalty kick shootout CAA tournament quarterfinal match. After all, it’s how they defeated George Mason University for a spot in the tournament’s semifinal match at the end of their 2011 season.
In the final home game of the season, the Northeastern volleyball team recognized its two seniors, outside hitter Jasmine Marta and middle hitter Nicole Bishop, before sweeping Georgia State University on Sunday in straight sets (25-22, 25-18, 25-19).
Sophomore swimmer Anna Schegoleva led the Huskies with three first-place wins in Saturday’s season-opening meet against the University of New Hampshire, but it wasn’t enough for the win as Northeastern fell to the Wildcats, 165-135, at the Barletta Natatorium in Cabot Physical Education Center.
