After a decent 4-3 start, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball team dropped a pair of close games last week to Stony Brook University and Harvard University. While the scoreboard read that the Huskies were in each game until the end, there’s an unmistakable sense that these losses could have easily been wins.
It was a rollercoaster week for the Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball team. The Huskies lost three contests in a five-game stretch, including competing in the Steve Wright Classic on Boston University’s campus. After laboring through two late-game collapses, the team rallied to back-to-back victories before dropping another close game.
Social theorist Karl Marx wrote that prevalent capitalist societies would crumble at the hands of the disgruntled working class after decades of inequality. Of course, Marx probably never would have predicted that the onset of this revolution would perhaps find its roots in the massive horde of upset NBA fans and players who took to social media to express how they have been “hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray,” or any other words an angry Stephen A. Smith would use in this situation. I am of course talking about Kevin Durant’s unprecedented move to the already-strong Golden State Warriors, leaving Oklahoma City Thunder fans in a state of distress that only a Seattle Supersonics fan could understand.
Following a senior campaign in which he knocked down 41 3-pointers and averaged a career-high 4.6 points per game, Northeastern guard Caleb Donnelly was named the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year on Tuesday, April 5. Donnelly, in addition to his numbers on the court, posted a 3.994 GPA in the classroom and is set to graduate in May with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering with a minor in mathematics.
The Madness can begin. The brackets have been released, and a shot at predicting the future can start. March is here, having escaped the winter with hardly anything to complain about. This month marks Easter, the last sights of snow and the beginning of spring. However, all of that means nothing compared to March Madness.
Back on Feb. 6, the Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball team dropped its sixth-straight game, a 90-73 home drubbing at the hands of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. NU fell below .500, and any hopes of hoisting a second-straight conference championship banner seemed to vanish.
It was a rare sight: Northeastern University (NU) men’s basketball players smiling at the post-game press conference at Matthews Arena. Players rarely attend the presser if the Huskies lose, and NU hadn’t earned a home victory since early January.
The Husky fans that came out to Matthews Arena on Saturday night didn’t have much to smile about. Northeastern (NU) men’s basketball trailed the University of Carolina-Wilmington (UNCW) by 17 points with two minutes remaining, well on its way to a sixth straight defeat.
