The Huskies led the Hawks by one with two minutes remaining, only to come up on the short end of a 63-59 loss. Heather Weindorfer led the Hawks with 24 points on 11-17 shooting and complemented that with 12 rebounds. For the Huskies, Tesha Tinsley continued to fire away, yet connected on only 7 of 19 shots for 17 points. Sue Bright, who sat out both weekend games as a result of a kidney stone ailment. The Huskies now host New Hampshire and America East leader Maine to finish out the regular season.
Optimism still abounds, even after the losing streak has reached seven games.
We've got them at home. After that, it's the AE tournament. In all probablity, the Huskies will enter as the No. 10 seed, which would have them facing No. 7 seed Towson State in the preliminary round. NU has lost to Towson twice this season. Maybe another plateau, this time one worth celebrating, will be reached.