For Northeastern, the CAA Tournament didn’t go quite how they expected it to, and the way it ended made it especially difficult to take.
Tag: Northeastern
Huskies Not Ready to Go Home Yet
Call it what you will, but any way you slice it, Northeastern wasn’t about to go home just yet. It took two overtimes, but the Huskies came away with a hard-fought quarterfinal win.
CAA: Colonial Teams Get Bracket Busted
The biggest loser of the ESPN BracketBusters weekend was clearly the CAA, which dropped nine of 12 games, including three by the conference’s possible bubble teams.
Quick Hitters – February 15, 2010
We have some quick hitters from the weekend, with several on the Ivy League as well as Belmont’s road adventure and UMass riding the play of a hot senior guard to another win.
Northeastern Continues to Look An Important Year Older
One game at a time, Northeastern looks more and more like a team that learned the painful lesson of last season. The latest example of this was the Huskies’ 62-53 victory over Georgia State on a snowy night in Boston.
Huskies Look Like They’ve Learned Their Lesson
Last season, Northeastern got off to a great start in the CAA before fading down the stretch. The Huskies have started strong again in the CAA this time around, and look like a team that may have learned from last season.
Can Northeastern Avoid a Repeat of 2008-09?
After knocking off VCU on Saturday, Northeastern is a hot team. They have won 11 in a row and are 8-1 in the CAA. Last year, they were in a similar situation and fizzled out; can this year’s team avoid a similar fate?
Bracket Buster: Northeastern Shuts Down Wright State
In this game of two defensive-minded teams, Wright State succeeded in shutting down Northeastern’s two top scorers, but their whole effort sprung a leak as Chaisson Allen exploded for 22 points and Eugene Spates had a career day, as the Huskies defeated Wright State 69-57.
Northeastern Holds Off VCU in Year’s Best Game
It was as if it were a set up in advance for Virginia Commonwealth, with its returning CAA Player of the Year now a senior, leading the league in assists and 5 points ahead of the second best scorer. And as Andy Katz of ESPN has pointed out more than once, it isn’t just in the Big East (and in Big Ten football) that schedules are unbalanced, and often grossly unfair. For the moment the twelve team CAA has determined not to split into two divisions, supposedly because all the Virginia rivals want to play one another twice (yet oddly, VCU and George Mason just play once).
Vaughan’s Terrific Outing Makes us Appreciate the Game
Thankfully, it appears John Vaughan will be okay after what happened Wednesday night at Matthews Arena. A report on Thursday said he will be out for at least a week, but it’s certainly better than being a life-changing injury, which some at the arena surely feared.
