Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) – Northeastern is back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years.<\/p>\n
Williams & Mary’s long wait will last at least one more year.<\/p>\n
Quincy Ford scored 22 points and Northeastern held on to beat William & Mary 72-61 on Monday to win the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament.<\/p>\n
David Walker added 15 points, Caleb Donnelly had 13 and Scott Eatherton scored 12 for the third-seeded Huskies (23-11), who will carry a three-game winning streak into their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1991.<\/p>\n
William & Mary, armed with the No. 1 seed and coming off a double-overtime win in the semifinals, remains one of only five original Division I teams never to have made the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
Marcus Thornton led the Tribe (20-12) with 20 points a day after getting a tournament-record 37 against Hofstra. Daniel Dixon, who hit the 3 that won Sunday’s game, added 15 points and Terry Tarpey chipped in 10.<\/p>\n
William & Mary was playing in the conference title game for the fourth time in the last eight years.<\/p>\n
The Tribe made a valiant push after trailing by 22 in the second half, but a 16-0 run led by Thornton and Dixon came up short.<\/p>\n
Ford scored 15 of his 22 points in the first half, including eight during a 10-0 Northeastern run to open the game, which was punctuated by consecutive 3s from the junior.<\/p>\n
The Huskies never trailed. William & Mary tied the score three times in the first half before Northeastern scored 16 of the final 22 points for a 36-26 lead at the break.<\/p>\n
The Huskies shot better than 63 percent in the half and stretched their lead to 13 early in the second.<\/p>\n
Game Notes<\/p>\n
Army, St. Francis of New York, Northwestern and The Citadel are the other four original Division I programs that have never made the NCAA Tournament … The Huskies lead the all-time series with William & Mary 10-9 … In addition to its four appearances in the CAA title game, William & Mary also played for the Southern Conference championship in 1958, 1961, 1965 and 1975 and the ECAC South title game in 1983 … Northeastern made seven NCAA Tournament appearances between 1981-91 … It was the third consecutive year the No. 1 seed played the No. 3 seed in the conference title game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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