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!

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

The first two rounds of the 2020 CAA Men's Basketball Championship will be streaming live and on demand exclusively on FloHoops and the FloSports apps from Saturday March 7th to Sunday March 8th.

A season-opening defeat of Boston University gave Northeastern some early-season bragging rights. Friday when the Huskies host Harvard, they have an opportunity to make some serious noise not just locally, but on the national scene. 

Northeastern became a standard bearer for the Colonial Athletic Association in a decade of change.