Huskies Journey To Harvard Tuesday Night time

BOSTON – The Northeastern males’s basketball workforce is again in motion on Tuesday evening because the Huskies journey to crosstown rival Harvard for a 7 p.m. tip-off at Lavietes Pavilion on ESPN+.
 
THREE THINGS TO KNOW

 

1. SERIES HISTORY VS. HARVARD
The Huskies and Harvard are assembly for the fifth straight season, and 62nd time general. The Crimson leads the sequence, 42-19, with Northeastern searching for their second straight win and first win at Lavietes Pavilion since 2018.
 
Last season towards the Crimson, Ryan Williams went for 21 factors to guide 4 gamers in double figures as Northeastern bolted out to a big first half lead and by no means regarded again in a 78-56 win at Matthews Arena. The win was Northeastern’s first over the Crimson since 2019 and the biggest win over Harvard in program historical past (22 factors).
 
2. DOUBLE ‘EM UP
Xander Alarie has began each video games this season in his first collegiate motion after transferring from Miami (FL), highlighted by a 13-point, 13-rebound double-double at Colgate on Friday evening.
 
He is the primary Northeastern freshman to document a double-double because the 2016-17 season: Bolden Brace on Nov. 20, 2016 vs. Maine (10 factors, 10 rebounds) and Maxime Boursiquot on Jan, 12, 2017 towards Drexel (17 factors, 11 rebounds).
 
Alarie enters Tuesday’s sport ranked twenty third within the nation and leads the CAA averaging 8.0 defensive rebounds per sport.
 
3. LOUGHNANE LEGACY
Junior Mike Loughnane joined the Huskies as a switch from Davidson. As a sophomore in 2024-25, he appeared in 33 video games (32 begins), ending fifth on the workforce in scoring (5.1ppg). Loughnane was a three-time captain and is the all-time main scorer at Boston College High School, the place he helped them to a 2022 Massachusetts state championship earlier than being named the 2022 Maxpreps Massachusetts Player of the Year.
 
His father, Bill, performed at Northeastern from 1976-80, and is this system’s document holder in single-game assists (15 vs. Delaware on Dec. 29, 1977), and third in workforce historical past with 500 assists in 100 video games.