BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team is back in action on Tuesday night as the Huskies travel 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 meeting for the fifth straight season, and 62nd time overall. The Crimson leads the series, 42-19, with Northeastern in search of their second straight win and first win at Lavietes Pavilion since 2018.
 
Last season against the Crimson, Ryan Williams went for 21 points to lead four players in double figures as Northeastern bolted out to a large first half lead and never looked back in a 78-56 win at Matthews Arena. The win was Northeastern's first over the Crimson since 2019 and the largest win over Harvard in program history (22 points).
 
2. DOUBLE 'EM UP
Xander Alarie has started both games this season in his first collegiate action after transferring from Miami (FL), highlighted by a 13-point, 13-rebound double-double at Colgate on Friday night.
 
He is the first Northeastern freshman to record a double-double since the 2016-17 season: Bolden Brace on Nov. 20, 2016 vs. Maine (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Maxime Boursiquot on Jan, 12, 2017 against Drexel (17 points, 11 rebounds).
 
Alarie enters Tuesday's game ranked 23rd in the nation and leads the CAA averaging 8.0 defensive rebounds per game.
 
3. LOUGHNANE LEGACY
Junior Mike Loughnane joined the Huskies as a transfer from Davidson. As a sophomore in 2024-25, he appeared in 33 games (32 starts), finishing fifth on the team in scoring (5.1ppg). Loughnane was a three-time captain and is the all-time leading scorer at Boston College High School, where he helped them to a 2022 Massachusetts state championship before being named the 2022 Maxpreps Massachusetts Player of the Year.
 
His father, Bill, played at Northeastern from 1976-80, and is the program's record holder in single-game assists (15 vs. Delaware on Dec. 29, 1977), and third in team history with 500 assists in 100 games.