The Huskies (20-11, 12-6 CAA) tied William & Mary, James Madison and UNCW with 12-6 league marks and also recorded their second 20-win season in the last five years. They shot 51.3 percent (20-of-39) from the floor and made 22-of-26 attempts from the free throw line against the Cougars (8-23, 3-15).

CofC led by one 33-32 at halftime, but shot 33.3 percent (8-of-24) in the second half of play in comparison to 54.5 percent (12-of-22) in the first. Sophomore Joe Chealey (Orlando, Fla.) scored 13 of the team's 23 second-half points. He ended the night with a game-high 20 points – his 10th consecutive game in double figures. Chealey also went 7-for-7 from charity as Charleston went to the free-throw line 15 times with nine makes.

Northeastern has won three of its last four games heading into postseason tournament play, while the Cougars have dropped their last three – two by single digits. Sophomore Canyon Barry (Colorado Springs, Colo.) added 14 points, while senior big man Adjehi Baru (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) led the team with a game-high eight boards.

David Walker led the Huskies with 19 points and was joined in double figures by Zach Stahl with 11 and Scott Eatherton and T.J. Williams with 10 each.

A 7-2 run sparked by a three-point play by Walker and capped with an Eatherton dunk gave Northeastern its largest lead, 63-45, with 2:46 remaining in regulation to seal the four-way tie for first in the league.

CofC will be the No. 10 seed in the upcoming CAA Tournament to be held on March 6-9 at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Md. The Cougars will face No. 7 seed Drexel in the opening round on March 6 at 8:30 p.m. (ET). Northeastern earned a first-round bye and the No. 3 seed and will take on No. 6 seed Delaware in the quarterfinals on March 7.

POSTGAME NOTES

• For the first time this season, the Cougars started senior Pat Branin, senior Anthony Stitt, sophomore Canyon Barry, freshman Evan Bailey and senior Adjehi Baru (0-1). It marked the first career start for Branin in 53 career games played.

• Aside from honoring seniors Pat Branin (Richmond, Va.), Anthony Stitt (Charlotte, N.C.) and Baru, CofC honored four-year student managers, Rebecca Drewry (Lynchburg, Va.), Kate Mayes (Beach Haven, N.J.), William Price (Shelton, Conn.) and Louis Roskowski (Williamsport, Pa.).

• Northeastern now leads 3-1 in the all-time series with College of Charleston and is 2-0 lifetime at TD Arena.

• Joe Chealey recorded his second career 20-point outing with a game-high 20 points against Northeastern. He extended his career-best double-digit scoring streak to 10 consecutive games.

• Canyon Barry was the only other player in double figures with 14 points. He has scored in double digits in 13 of the last 16 contests for the Cougars.

• Anthony Stitt dished out a game-high five assists and now has 306 for his career.

• Adjehi Baru led all rebounders with eight and has now brought down 907 career boards. He is one of only four  all-time players in school history to record 1,000 career points and 900 career rebounds next to CofC greats Ken Gustafson, Thaddeous Delaney, John Drafts and Jermaine Johnson.

• The 2015 CofC Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Class of Daniel S. Dukes, IV, John Kresse and Anita Condon van de Erve were honored prior to the game at an induction brunch and during the first half of play.

POSTGAME QUOTES 

College of Charleston Head Coach Earl Grant

On keeping the team in a positive state-of-mind despite the losses piling up ...

“If you lose over-and-over again, it gets really difficult to get fired-up and stay excited about that next game and that next day. Throughout the year, I never felt that it was hard to pick them up. I thought we kept in good spirits and I stayed positive with them. We just stayed focused on what we needed to do to get better. Obviously, there are some areas that we haven't closed the gap yet. We have a lot of work ahead of us to continue to improve. We are still a work-in-progress. We have four days before traveling to Baltimore and there's only one team that is going to get a big trophy, so we need to have a good week of preparation. I told the guys, 'it's up to them.' If they want to go to Baltimore and try and do something special, these next four days are the most important of their lives, especially for our seniors.”

On what the team will work on heading into the conference tournament …

“Game prep for Drexel and game prep for the next team – the first two games of the tournament. Preparing for both and trying to find some rhythm offensively and continue to work on our defense. Our defense is good at times, but we give up too many easy baskets. We have to get better. We have to protect the rim more. We have to be tougher around the basket. We have to find a flow offensively and figure out a way for us to get into a rhythm and get some points up in Baltimore.”

On the team's defensive play …

“I really hate that we don't get more easy baskets. The CAA is a good league. It's so hard to score every time in the half court. We haven't been able to generate enough easy baskets, whether it be second-chance points or turnovers or transition baskets. I want to score more easy baskets early in transition and we haven't been able to do that. It's always been very difficult. As you try to defend each possession and you're not scoring for a four-minute period, your defense can only hold up for so long.”

On Northeastern's play in the second half …

“They (Northeastern) really didn't make a lot of adjustments. Defensively, they stayed the same. We drove the ball and we didn't get fouled. The difference in the game was the free throws. They drove it and got fouled. We drove it and didn't get fouled. Twenty-two made free throws for them and nine for us. That's the only difference in the second half. We were up one at the half and both teams were attacking. They got to the line and we didn't.”

College of Charleston Sophomore Guard Joe Chealey

On what happened in the second half …

“We did not do a good job on defense with our fouling. We put them on the line too many times and they did a good job of making us pay. We just have to play better defensively, if we want a shot to win. We definitely played well offensively in the second half. We got good looks and stuff, a few easy ones we missed, but what it came down to was playing defense.”

College of Charleston Sophomore Guard Canyon Barry

On Northeastern making adjustments in the second half …

“You have to give them (Northeastern) credit. They played well. They made their free throws. They had a lot of ball-screen slips and they drove the ball well. They're a good team. Obviously, there's some stuff we could have done better that I think would've helped us, but they played well too.”