Remember the CAA of your misspent younger days? The one where points felt precious, games regularly ended in the 60s and the sludgy style of play was oddly honorable? Well, it’s back!

James Madison’s brand-new home, Atlantic Union Bank Center, might well have already needed a new roof if fans had been allowed in on Jan. 5. 

Bill Coen possesses an affable cautiousness not often found in basketball coaches. And even if he wasn’t so low-key, his resume as one of the most experienced and decorated coaches in CAA history ensures he’s not prone to hyperbole when comparing past and present feats at Northeastern.

It’s been an eventful three weeks in between I’ll Be Quirkys for the Hofstra men’s basketball team. The Pride opened CAA play by sweeping William & Mary during the first weekend of 2021 and absorbed back-to-back painful losses to Northeastern in rematches of the 2020 CAA title game before getting routed by Delaware on Friday and salvaging a split of the series by a literal split second on Sunday.

Folks knew coming into the 2020-21 season just how good Matt Lewis can be. The James Madison guard earned preseason Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year, despite the Dukes being picked to finish ninth in the league. 

The question stumped Nathan Knight: With the Atlanta Hawks among the NBA teams not sending a team to the G-League bubble, how and where would he be honing his craft right now if he hadn’t made the Hawks out of training camp?

It didn’t take long for Northeastern to get the green light for the sequel to its adventure in time travel.

As the sun rose over Washington, D.C. on March 10, 2020, the only certainty about the outcome of the night’s biggest basketball game in town was the reverberations of the Hofstra-Northeastern clash would still be felt whenever the two teams played next. 

Hard knocks before Colonial Athletic Association play have Northeastern setting the pace early in conference competition. 

Hofstra’s imperfect sweep of the opening weekend of CAA play left acting head coach Mike Farrelly relying upon one of the most famous quotes in NFL history — words uttered just a few hundred feet from where he sat Sunday afternoon.

Along with a new year, the Colonial Athletic Association ushers in a new phase to the unusual 2020-21 season with the upcoming tipoff of the conference slate. 

Let the record show the first Division I team in the 2020-21 season to sweep the same opponent on back-to-back days was Drexel.

Just one week into the 2020-21 NBA season, the Colonial Athletic Association made an impact in the pros. 

There was no shortage of drama for Hofstra as the Pride concluded its non-conference schedule by winning two of three road games over the previous 13 days.

Like most head coaches, Takayo Siddle of UNC Wilmington doesn’t want to spend too much time reflecting upon the past or comparing his team to any of its predecessors. But having served on Kevin Keatts’ staff in 2014-15, Siddle understands there are obvious similarities between a pair of Seahawks squads separated by more than half a decade.