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After last year’s sudden discontinuation of Northeastern football, several players hit the open market to search for new homes. Several wound up at UMass, while others were scattered around the conference - and the country. Here are some stories about former Huskies, their new homes, and expectations for the new season:

• Boston Herald: UMass glad to have ex-Huskies
• Richmond Register: Lengel finds new home at EKU
• Scout.com: Akinniyi is all business
• Scout.com: Camp Q&A - David Akinniyi
• S.C. Technician: Senior adjusts to new scenery in last final year of eligibility

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Northeastern basketball will play the second leg of their holiday road trip just outside Orlando, Florida when they participate in the UCF Holiday Classic, December 29-30. According to GoPrincetonTigers.com, the Huskies will face Princeton in the first game, and either Furman or Central Florida in the second game.

• GoPrincetonTigers.com: Men’s Basketball 2010-11 Schedule Announced

The full schedule has not been officially released by Northeastern, but here’s what it should look like:

• Friday, November 12 vs. Boston University
• Tuesday, November 16 at Southern Illinois (ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon)
• Saturday, November 20 vs. Siena (Homecoming)
• Saturday, November 27 at Utah State
• Wednesday, December 1 at Providence
• Thursday, December 9 vs. Rhode Island
• Wednesday, December 22 vs. St. Louis (Cancun Governor’s Cup)
• Thursday, December 23 vs. ETSU/Southern Mississippi (Cancun Governor’s Cup)
• Friday, December 24 vs. TBD (Cancun Governor’s Cup)
• Wednesday, December 29 vs. Princeton (UCF Holiday Classic)
• Thursday, December 30 vs. UCF/Furman (UCF Holiday Classic)
• Saturday, February 19 at ESPN Bracketbuster

In the Colonial Athletic Association, the Huskies will have two games each (home and home) against Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra, George Mason, Georgia State, North Carolina-Wilmington, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The team will have single games at home against Towson and William & Mary, as well as road games against James Madison and Old Dominion.

WRBB Sports Basketball Holiday Road Trip, Princeton, UCF

For the second consecutive year, Northeastern will participate in ESPN’s “College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon,” this year traveling to Carbondale, Illinois to face the Southern Illinois Salukis. The game, scheduled for November 16th at 10:00 a.m. ET, will be the first at a newly-renovated SIU Arena. Southern Illinois will return the trip when they visit Matthews Arena in 2011.

• Benton Evening News: SIU Men’s Hoops to Open Arena on ESPN

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Our summer break is nearly over! It’s time to get back to what matters most - Northeastern sports. This season, WRBB is once again “Your home for Huskies sports” with up to 300 hours of live game broadcasts and support programming.

We’re expanding our talk show lineup in September with two new shows: CAA Full Court Press and The Sports Corner.

• CAA Full Court Press is your new destination for all things CAA basketball. Join hosts Andy Towne and Darren Costa as they break down games, discuss upcoming matchups, recruiting, and relevant news in conference. It’s the only student-produced show in the nation focusing exclusively on CAA basketball. Until it gets on air, join the discussion on the Press’s Facebook page.
• The Sports Corner, entering its second season, is a fresh take on sports talk radio. Everything is fair game, from the pros down to the college ranks. Think you can’t cram that much debate into a single hour? Think again.

WRBB also returns its signature properties, the Dog Pound Sports Sound and Hockey East This Week:

• Dog Pound Sports Sound has covered Northeastern athletics every Friday for over a decade. Catch up on all the day’s headlines every 30 minutes with the 30/30 Husky Hotwire, hear in-depth interviews with the movers and shakers in the world of Northeastern sports, plus get the best insight and analysis from the students that cover each and every Huskies game.
• Hockey East This Week, entering its fourth season, is WRBB’s take on the week-that-was in the nation’s top hockey conference. Join the Huskies’ hockey broadcast team - Alex Faust, Jared Shafran, and Ben Horner - as they give you a heaping portion of analysis with a side of humor.

All of WRBB’s shows are available in podcast form online at WRBBSports.com. The new broadcast season gets underway on September 17th with the season premiere of the Dog Pound Sports Sound.

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound WRBB

This coming season, WRBB will air at least 32 regular-season Northeastern men’s hockey games, from nine different arenas. Below is the tentative broadcast schedule for the 2010-2011 season, which is subject to change.

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This morning, Northeastern announced that basketball head coach Bill Coen was signed to a Six-year contract extension, ending weeks of speculation about Coen’s future. Coen and athletic director Peter Roby spoke about the deal on an online question-and-answer program earlier today.

Coen and Roby had been negotiating for the past few weeks, ultimately reaching an agreement in the past few days. No further details of the contract’s terms have been disclosed, though Roby and Coen alluded to raises for assistants and an increased recruiting budget to effectively compete in the top tier of the CAA.

WRBB Sports Basketball

This past Wednesday, WRBB Sports completed its 2009-2010 broadcast season with coverage of the 21st annual Baseball Beanpot championship. It was the end to a journey of over 25,000 miles from coast to coast, originating from 31 different road broadcast sites, and spanning 17 different states. It was another year of growth for the station - student web traffic was up 10%, and direct non-referred traffic was up 7%.

WRBB’s commitment to on delivering live streaming audio to several mobile platforms resulted in a whopping 100% increase in mobile-based web traffic and listenership. Huskies fans can now listen to WRBB through Northeastern’s “Go Huskies” iPhone/iPod App, WRBB’s iPhone/iPod compatible web stream, Nobex Radio Companion for Blackberry, and through several media players for Windows Mobile devices. Read more…

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Today, the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced that it has entered into a new broadcast rights agreement with CBS and Turner, and has expanded the Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament to 68 teams beginning in 2011. The announcement comes amid speculation that the tournament could have been grown to as many as 96 teams, and occurs before a July 31 deadline for changing the broadcast rights agreement. The new tournament increases the ‘opening round’ to three games from one, and expands regional television coverage to cable outlets TNT and TBS.

Interim NCAA president Jim Isch said in a press release, “This agreement will provide on average more than $740 million annually to our conferences and member schools to help student-athletes in 23 sports learn and compete.”

ESPN, one of the bidders for tournament rights, released a statement which said, “We made an aggressive bid and believe our combination of TV distribution, digital capabilities, season-long coverage and year-round marketing would have served the interests of the NCAA and college fans very well.”

As the new agreement will potentially change revenue distribution to member institutions, the NCAA has established a committee to evaluate new distribution formulas which will, in Isch’s words, “[support] student-athletes so they can be successful in the classroom and in life.”

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound NCAAs

Northeastern is unable to defend its Beanpot championship, dropping the title game to Boston College 9-3.

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