The Huntington News • 31st December 2024

East fails to conquer west: Huskies face tough loss against Northwestern

The Northeastern Huskies (8-5, 0-0 CAA) failed to stop the Northwestern Wildcats (10-3, 1-1 Big Ten) 60-85 Dec. 29. 
The Huskies have been on a roll this season and facing this Big Ten school was an important test, but the Wildcats contained Northeastern, only allowing three steals and one block in the game. 
The Huskies only notched 46% successful field goals in the first half, but were able to improve to 57% in the second half. Northwestern significantly upgraded their success rate from 40% to...

The Huntington News • 17th December 2024

Student athletes collect 321 toys for holiday charitable drive, nearly doubling donations from 2023

The Huskies Holiday Toy Drive, a charitable program presented by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, recently completed its second year, collecting unwrapped toys at Northeastern’s home games between Nov. 28 and Dec. 8 to donate to children around Massachusetts for the holiday season. 
After partnering with the Wonderfund, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, or SAAC, assembled a collection of 321 toys along with $550 for the Teenage Gift Card program, where teenagers involved are able to...

The Huntington News • 9th December 2024

Northeastern men’s basketball narrowly beats out Colgate

Northeastern men’s basketball (7-3, 0-0 CAA) kept its cool and continued to battle hard to end victorious against the Colgate University Raiders (2-8, 0-0 Patriot League), 75-78 Dec. 8.
Northeastern’s 11 turnovers in the first half led to the Raiders lead at halftime, but as the game progressed, the Huskies were able to hold on to the ball for longer.
“We were driving the single gaps and as they came up,” said head coach Bill Coen. “[Colgate] had 16 points on 11 turnovers and that was really the...

The Huntington News • 6th December 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 13: Breaking down the key takeaways

Week 13 saw many close contests. Twelve of the 16 games played this week were won by just one score. With many teams riddled with injuries, it’s no surprise that even some of the best teams in the NFL struggled this week. This week was for the league’s star quarterbacks, who put on stellar performances, often leading their team to victory.
Some teams saw their season go from bad to worse, and several were eliminated from playoff contention. The Buffalo Bills clinched the AFC East title, making t...

The Huntington News • 5th December 2024

Northeastern men’s basketball dominates over La Salle

Northeastern’s men basketball (6-3,  0-0 CAA) dominated La Salle University Explorers (6-3, 0-0 Atlantic 10) Dec. 3, notching a 82-68 win. 
The Huskies consistently had the lead over the La Salle Explorers, shutting down their opponents with an exception of La Salle guards graduate student Corey McKeithan and senior Daeshon Shepherd, who notched a combined total of 39 points. Junior guard Harold Woods snatched the most points, 17, amongst his fellow Huskies. 
As a unit, the Huskies went 33/63 fr...

The Huntington News • 22nd November 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 11: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

Interceptions were crucial this week, clinching crucial victories for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Buffalo Bills. The Saints are finally starting to win games, something no one expected to see this season — including the players themselves. Talking about losing games, the Jaguars are missing Trevor Lawrence and the embarrassment that they allowed proves it. 
Down go the Chiefs. 
The Buffalo Bills handed the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season Nov. 17. The Bills Mafia came into t...

The Huntington News • 17th November 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 10: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

One striking trend this season in the NFL is that offenses seemed to have cratered. The rise of defenses playing two-high safeties has been effective at limiting the big passing plays that previously seemed to be commonplace in the league. This is the fifth-straight year scoring has decreased, which led some to sound the alarm. 
However, others point to the fact that many recent rule changes seemed to facilitate the offense and impede on defenses, so if the defenses can keep excelling, then cred...

The Huntington News • 13th November 2024

Northeastern men’s basketball takes its first loss at home opener

The Northeastern men’s basketball team (1-1, 0-0 CAA) narrowly fell to Princeton University (3-0, Ivy League 0-0) Nov. 10 after a tough battle, 79-76. 
Princeton’s junior forward Caden Pierce tallied the opening point of the game off a free throw from a foul by junior center Collin Metcalf, but missed the second opportunity. 
The Huskies had some trouble rebounding, which was a consistent theme through the first half. 
Junior guard Harold Woods notched the first basket for Northeastern almost a...

The Huntington News • 12th November 2024

Northeastern men’s basketball is putting last season behind them

After a disappointing 12-20 record last season and the graduation of key players including Chris Doherty and Luka Sakota, Northeastern men’s basketball is back and ready to redeem themselves. As this season kicks into gear, the Huskies are focusing on accountability and putting their trust in each other in order to be successful. 
“Believing in the coaches, they put us in the right places to win, so just believe in that and do what you gotta do,” said junior guard Harold Woods. 
Head coach Bill...

The Huntington News • 10th November 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 9: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

This past week in the NFL, there was confusion across the board. The New Orleans Saints fired their head coach after being defeated by the equally bad Carolina Panthers in a tough scramble. The Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills let bad teams stay too close to them in their respective games, possible bad foreshadowing as the playoffs approach. The Kansas City Chiefs also let a worse team give them grief until overtime, but still managed to scrape through and remain undefeated.
The Saints fire...

The Huntington News • 7th November 2024

Northeastern men’s basketball scrapes by, winning season opener against BU

Northeastern men’s basketball (1-0, 0-0 CAA) traveled across town Nov. 4 to play rival Boston University Terriers (0-1, 0-0 CAA), snatching a 80-73 victory for the Huskies in the season opener. 
Northeastern and Boston University traditionally match up for the first game of the season, and Northeastern has won twice in the past three years. 
Despite losing the the tip-off, Northeastern started off hot with good defending, along with scoring five points almost immediately, beginning with a 5-0 le...

The Huntington News • 3rd November 2024

Northeastern college Democrats and Republicans spar in SGA-hosted debate about presidential election

On Oct. 29, the Student Government Association held a presidential debate between Northeastern’s College Republicans and College Democrats, with topics including some of this election’s most prominent issues: immigration, abortion and the economy. 
In its entirety, the debate took about one hour, which is slightly shorter than the length of a traditional 90-minute presidential debate. Both sides were given two minutes to talk after a question was posed, then a minute each for rebuttal. There wer...

The Huntington News • 2nd November 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 8: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

Eight weeks have passed in the 2024 NFL season, and the halfway mark is nearing. Only one team is undefeated through said eight weeks: the Kansas City Chiefs. Just one other team — the Detroit Lions — has lost only one game. On the flip side, two teams have yet to win more than one game: the Carolina Panthers and the Tennessee Titans. However, there are no runaway contenders for MVP quite yet. 
Mo Fun in Motown, the Lions are the kings of the jungle.
The Detroit Lions have long been the NFL’s lo...

The Huntington News • 2nd November 2024

Huntington News poll finds Northeastern students heavily prefer Harris over Trump in 2024 election

Northeastern’s undergraduate student body has a strong preference for Kamala Harris, a poll by The Huntington News found. The survey, which was conducted over two weeks and gathered responses from 264 undergraduate students, found that 85.6% of randomly polled students said they plan to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Harris.
With only three days until election day, the majority of Northeastern undergraduates identify as liberal-leaning and prefer Harris for president, the poll found.
T...

The Huntington News • 1st November 2024

How Vinny Borgesi is leading the Huskies to redemption on the ice

Following its tough loss against Boston University in the quarterfinals of the Hockey East tournament last season, the Northeastern men’s ice hockey team is eager to go further this year – and one of the stars leading them is Vinny Borgesi. 
The junior defenseman and assistant captain has helped lead the team since last year. It’s a rarity for an underclassman to be named as an assistant captain. 
“Honestly, I didn’t know it was going to be me,” Borgesi said. “Obviously, I think it’s something t...

The Huntington News • 27th October 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 7: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

This week was another rollercoaster — and if you’re a Jets fan, you might never recover. Saquon Barkley showed his old team, the New York Giants, what he is capable of. The Minnesota Vikings finally added a loss to their record, resulting in the Kansas City Chiefs being the last team standing with an undefeated record. And the tradition of destroying a team with more than 30 points on the board continues. 
The New York Giants are regretting their trade of Saquon Barkley. 
The Philadelphia Eagles...

The Huntington News • 20th October 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 6: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

Week 7 of the NFL has been filled with trade action, from the Buffalo Bills trading for one of the league’s top wide receivers from the Cleveland Browns to the New York Jets also acquiring a top wide receiver from the Las Vegas Raiders. The Dallas Cowboys were completely and utterly demolished by the Detroit Lions this week, while the Bills narrowly clinched a win against the Jets with a 22-yard field goal from Tyler Bass. In the AFC South, Joe Flacco stepped up as the starting quarterback for t...

The Huntington News • 16th October 2024

In her final season as a Husky, Skylar Irving looks to leave her mark

With major changes to the Northeastern women’s hockey roster this season — including the graduation of Megan Carter and Katy Knoll, who helped power the Huskies’ defense and offense — the group must acclimate quickly as the season kicks into gear. It isn’t the first time the Huskies have leaned on new starpower due to roster turnover, and one athlete in particular knows how to handle the pressure. Senior forward Skylar Irving, 2024 Beanpot MVP and Hockey East Third Team All Star, heads into her...

The Huntington News • 15th October 2024

Nate Francois started on the club basketball team. Now, he takes on the D1 court.

All good things take time — and Northeastern basketball’s Nate Francois is a testament to that. The senior guard walked on to Northeastern’s Division I men’s basketball team prior to this season’s start in November after functioning as the team manager and playing for the men’s club team — proof that hard work does pay off. 
When Francois started to play basketball in the summer between grades eight and nine, later than many collegiate athletes, he instantly fell in love with the competitiveness...

The Huntington News • 13th October 2024

Northeastern released its 2024 annual security report. Here’s what you need to know.

Overall crime on the Boston campus has decreased over the last year while reports of dating violence increased, according to recently-released security reports covering crime statistics at Northeastern’s campuses through the 2023 calendar year.
Northeastern is federally mandated to release an Annual Security Report, or ASR, detailing campus crime statistics and a fire safety report every Oct. 1. Though the latest report reveals that crime decreased on the Boston campus last year, the university...

The Huntington News • 12th October 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 5: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

There were more surprises and upsets this week in the NFL. The most shocking? The Jacksonville Jaguars won a game. The Bills Mafia did not see their team perform as well as they did from weeks one through three as they lost to the Houston Texans. The Chiefs beat the Saints for their fifth consecutive win, but the best part was that Jason Kelce was in attendance. 
Jacksonville finally won. Who would have thought?
The Jags finally won a game on Oct. 6, ending their four-week losing streak. Althoug...

The Huntington News • 10th October 2024

Pro-Palestine demonstrators protest military industrial companies at Northeastern’s career fair

Dozens of people marched from the Christian Science Plaza to the Cabot Center Oct. 9 in protest of Northeastern’s all-day career fair, which featured several companies that manufacture military equipment and supply it to Israel. 
The rally, organized by unofficial student group Huskies for a Free Palestine, or HFP, started at the plaza at 1:30 p.m. The protest took place amid a week of planned pro-Palestine demonstrations commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and...

The Huntington News • 4th October 2024

Fantasy roundup Week 4: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

Week 4 of the 2024 NFL season brought a few surprises but also some results that were to be expected. After week 4, the remaining undefeated teams are the Kansas City Chiefs and the Minnesota Vikings, while the Jacksonville Jaguars are the only team who remain winless. Here are five key takeaways from the week of action.
The Dolphins are in trouble.
The Miami Dolphins came into the season highly regarded. They have a strong offense led by superstar Tyreek Hill and solid complementary pieces. On...

The Huntington News • 29th September 2024

Fantasy roundup week 3: Breaking down 5 key takeaways

The week of Sept. 19 through 23 of football had many surprises compared to the previous two: the Saints’ loss to the Eagles, the Vikings, Steelers and Seahawks advancing to 3-0 and the Bengals continuing their series of losses, 0-3. Here are five key takeaways from Week 3.
Josh Allen is just that good.
The rare double header the night of Sept. 23 turned into a blowout for the Bills Mafia, who ran up the score 47-10 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Quarterback Josh Allen took the spotlight in th...