BOSTON -- The Northeastern University baseball team (38-20) heads to Lawrence, Kansas for the NCAA Lawrence Regional beginning this Friday, May 29th. The Huskies, the regional's #4 seed, will open play against 15th-nationally seeded and top-regional seed Kansas on Friday, May 29 at 12 p.m. CT / 1 p.m. ET. #2 seed Arkansas and #3 seed Missouri State round out the four-team, double-elimination field at Hoglund Ballpark and will play Friday night. All regional games will air on ESPN+ and can be heard on WRBB Sports.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW:

• 1. HUNGRY DOGS RUN FASTER: Northeastern's path to the NCAA Tournament was anything but smooth. After earning the conference's #2 seed and a first-round bye in the CAA Tournament, the Huskies were shut out 6-0 by Hofstra in their tournament opener, needing to win four straight elimination games to claim the title. Northeastern responded with a 7-3 win over UNCW, with Andrew Rogovic earning the win in relief after Luc Rising struck out a career-high 11 Seahawks in an electric performance. Harrison Feinberg turned the tide of the tournament in the game against UNCW, trailing by a run in the eighth inning. His leadoff solo shot in the inning tied the game and sparked the Huskies to a five-run frame, pulling away from their southern rivals in a similar fashion to last year's championship game. From there on, the Huskies fed off that eighth-inning magic for the rest of the weekend. The Huskies then exacted revenge on Hofstra with a 5-4 win — Ryan Griffin picked up the victory in his first start in 20 days, and Andrew Wertz notched his fifth save of the year, entering with one out remaining in the bottom of the ninth with the tying run on second, and beating the batter to first on an unassisted putout to send Northeastern back to the championship round. The heroics continued later that night in the championship game - freshman hurler Cooper Maher took the ball for his first collegiate start, and delivered a stellar performance. He worked 5.2 innings, allowing just two runs on two hits, holding the tournament's top seed Campbell at bay. Catcher Will Fosberg broke the stalemate in the fifth inning with a two-run blast to right-center, spurring the Huskies to a 7-0 lead before Campbell got on the scoreboard late, but the bullpen combo of Joseph Hauser to David McSweeney to Wertz slammed the door for the Huskies, earning Wertz his second save of the day. In the winner-take-all finale, game one starter Robbie O'Connor asked for the ball on short rest to try and finish the run. O'Connor's 5.0 innings of 2-run ball were instrumental to the Huskies' defensive success, not allowing Campbell to get too far ahead. After a 2-0 Campbell lead, Feinberg scratched across a run in the fifth with an RBI ground out, and Tyler Harmony tied the game with an RBI single to left field. The game remained tied through the last three innings, with Wertz coming on for his fourth appearance of the tournament, stranding the bases loaded in the eighth with a strikeout, and working a 1-2-3 ninth. Tyler Harmony led off with a double, Harrison Feinberg legged out an infield single, and Ryan Gerety laced a line drive into right field to score Harmony from second, finishing the improbable run through the loser's bracket. The comeback made Northeastern just the fourth team in CAA Tournament history to win the championship after dropping its opening game, and the first to accomplish the feat in ten years.

• 2. BACK IN THE REGIONAL: Northeastern is making back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time since the 1970s and has claimed back-to-back CAA Tournament titles for the first time in program history. Last season's squad won its first NCAA Regional game since 1973, defeating Bethune-Cookman to advance through the loser's bracket. It'll be the Huskies' 12th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament, and the fifth under Mike Glavine. This year's roster is anchored by redshirt senior Harrison Feinberg, a three-time All-CAA First Teamer and the 2026 CAA Preseason Player of the Year, who is hitting .330/.443/.599 on the season with 16 home runs, 63 RBI, and 42 stolen bases — having set new program records this season for career home runs (46) and single-season stolen bases, surpassing his own mark of 37 set in 2025. Outfielder Ryan Gerety (.323/.457/.489, 5 HR, 37 RBI) and designated hitter Matt Brinker (.310/.426/.533, 8 HR, 59 RBI) provide a potent middle of the order, while Carmelo Musacchia (.285, 44 SB) has rewritten the program's career stolen base record, sitting at 97 career steals. On the mound, Robbie O'Connor (9-2, 4.31 ERA, 77.1 IP) leads the rotation alongside Luc Rising (5-4, 3.24 ERA) and Ryan Griffin (7-2, 3.90 ERA), with Andrew Wertz (2-2, 2.84 ERA, 6 SV) anchoring the back end of the bullpen.

• 3. WELCOME TO HOGLUND: The Lawrence Regional marks Northeastern's first time as a four seed in the Glavine era, and the first time the Huskies will take on the regional host in a regional opener. #13-ranked and #15 national seed Kansas (42-16, 22-8 Big 12) comes in as the hottest team in the field, capping its season with a dominant Big 12 Tournament run, culminating in a 9-0 rout of West Virginia in the championship game. The Jayhawks are 1-0 all-time against Northeastern, meeting in Port Charlotte Florida back in 2015. #2 seed and #14-ranked Arkansas (39-20, 17-13 SEC) enters after falling to Georgia in the SEC Tournament, looking to rebound on the regional stage. The Razorbacks and Huskies have never met, despite Northeastern traveling to the Fayetteville Regional in 2021, where the Huskies avoided the top-seeded Hogs in that bracket. #3 seed Missouri State (34-19, 21-3 Conference USA) was dominant in conference play but saw its season hit a speed bump with a loss to Liberty in the Conference USA Tournament. The Bears have also never faced Northeastern.