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?

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. 

Being the new kid in the neighborhood can be intimidating — not so for Connecticut in its return to the Big East. 

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.

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.

Nobody knew it at the time, but Hofstra’s run to the CAA Tournament championship in March contained one telling statistic and one telling image regarding Tareq Coburn’s future role with the team.

If all goes according to plan Wednesday night — and we all know how fragile a phrase “if all goes according to plan” is here in 2020 — Pat Skerry will stroll a sideline for the first time in 26 days as the Towson men’s basketball team resumes its schedule by visiting George Mason.

As a former player and assistant alongside 42-year [team:Villanova] head coach Henry Perretta, Denise Dillon says the lessons she’s taken from Perretta in her own career are “endless.” 

Northeastern coach Bill Coen said following his team’s back-and-forth loss at Syracuse that such a matchup presents a unique opportunity to learn about a squad’s mettle. The Huskies leave the Carrier Dome having learned more than they could have anticipated going in. 

It was lose one, win one in the resumption and continuation of local rivalries for Hofstra, which fell to Iona on Dec. 5 in the first game between the programs in almost nine years before beating Stony Brook last Wednesday in the now-annual clash of Long Island’s Division I programs.

Bill Coen was talking about the sophomore leap point guard Tyson Walker needs to make when he summarized the entire philosophy on which he’s built Northeastern’s men’s basketball program.

Rick Pitino went as far as he possibly could — almost 5,000 miles and over one ocean — from home to earn his first win as a Division I head coach.