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NU in the news - geewizNU - 01-12-2021 06:04 PM
The Bracketeer: NU one of 7 Teams of the Week...
https://bracketeer.org/inside-college-hoops/2021/1/11/teams-of-the-week-week-7
Northeastern - Bill Coen’s Northeastern program has been a staple in the CAA for well over a decade now. Coming into this year this Huskies was left with a young roster and had to deal with several offseason Covid issues. It nearly left them without a non-conference schedule, as was announced in mid-November by the school. As December rolled around, the Huskies were allowed to resume practice and were anxious to schedule games. They picked up a home & away with UMass, and marquee road games at Syracuse and West Virginia. In total, the Huskies packed five games into a 12-day span against real tough competition.
Despite sitting at 1-5 heading into conference play, this team was growing together and Coach Coen was learning more about his team. In the long run, it may have been the best thing to happen for the program to succeed this year. An opening weekend sweep of Elon, set the tone for a showdown series with rival Hofstra. The two-game series was split between Hempstead on Friday and Boston on Saturday. The CAA does this with the travel partner teams when they face each other in the two-game format for this season only. By halftime of the game at Hofstra, it appeared that Northeastern wasn’t ready for this level of fight yet. After all, Hofstra led comfortably 46-29 and were executing their gameplan beautifully.
But this Huskies’ squad was tough as nails in the second half and rallied all the way back to get the game into overtime. Outstanding adjustments by Coach Coen and staff really opened up better looks and put the clamps on the Pride defensively. In OT, Shaquille Walters hit a dagger three late to put Northeastern up by 5 help seal the 81-78 win. Back in Boston, Northeastern was ready for game two of the series. The Huskies came out firing often from distance. 37 three-point attempts resulted in 15 makes. More impotantly, the defensive adjustments from game one carried over to game two. Northeastern force 17 turnovers and held Hofstra to just five triples. It was enough to pull away for an 11-point win. Now sitting at 4-0 in CAA with a commanding first place lead, the Huskies are well-positioned to make a run at an unexpected CAA regular season title. Even more encouraging is the Huskies are getting better with each game they play.
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RE: NU in the news - geewizNU - 01-12-2021 06:06 PM
FloHoops article on NU's OOC schedule paying some benefits to good start in CAA...
https://www.flohoops.com/articles/6855782-difficult-non-conference-slate-helps-northeastern-to-hot-caa-start
RE: NU in the news - NUGUY - 01-12-2021 10:55 PM
This year's OOC schedule was tougher than most of ours but Coen always schedules two or three tough ones. When you're in a one bid conference it's the smart thing to do. He sees no value in playing Wentworth....who previous coaches played regularly.
RE: NU in the news - geewizNU - 01-13-2021 12:14 AM
(01-12-2021 10:55 PM)NUGUY Wrote: This year's OOC schedule was tougher than most of ours but Coen always schedules two or three tough ones. When you're in a one bid conference it's the smart thing to do. He sees no value in playing Wentworth....who previous coaches played regularly.
Or Bentley...